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Alexander Oparin
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Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)
Alexander Oparin was a Soviet biochemist who lived from 1894 to 1980 and made important contributions to understanding how life might have begun on Earth. His work on the chemical origins of life helped shape modern scientific thinking about the conditions necessary for living organisms to emerge from non-living matter.
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- Born
- 2 March 1894
- Died
- 21 April 1980
- Works
- 72
Top works
- Origin of Life on the Earth
- Proiskhozhdenie zhizni i ėvoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnai︠a︡ biokhimii︠a︡
- Zhiznʹ ee priroda
- Problemy vozniknoveniia i sushchnosti zhizni
- Narody mira v bor'be za mir
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,596x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,536x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,133x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,060x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,526x
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Alexander Ivanovich Oparin (Russian: Александр Иванович Опарин; 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1894 – 21 April 1980) was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life and for his book The Origin of Life.
He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells. He showed that many food production processes were based on biocatalysis and developed the foundations for industrial biochemistry in the USSR.