Aleksandr Oparin

   

Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin (Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Опарин, 2 March (18 February Julian) 1894 - 21 April 1980) - Soviet biologist and biochemist. Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Founder of the RAS Biochemistry Institute (1935). In 1924 put forward a theory of life on Earth developing through gradual chemical evolution of carbon-based molecules in primeval soup.

On his passing in 1980, he was interred in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Major works

  • "The External Factors in Enzyme Interactions Within a Plant Cell"
  • "The Origin of Life on Earth"
  • "Life, Its Nature, Origin and Evolution"
  • "The History of the Theory of Genesis and Evolution of Life"

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