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Aleksandr Oparin, 1970.
Aleksandr Oparin, 1970.

Aleksandr Oparin

Russian biochemist
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Also known as: Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin
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Distinguished Research Scientist, Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile. Research Professor and Director, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Evolution, University of Miami,...
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin
Born:
Feb. 18 [March 2, New Style], 1894, Uglich, near Moscow, Russia
Died:
April 21, 1980 (aged 86)
Awards And Honors:
Order of Lenin
Subjects Of Study:
origin of life
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Aleksandr Oparin (born Feb. 18 [March 2, New Style], 1894, Uglich, near Moscow, Russia—died April 21, 1980) was a Russian biochemist noted for his studies on the origin of life from chemical matter. By drawing on the insights of chemistry, he extended the Darwinian theory of evolution backward in time to explain how simple organic and inorganic materials might have combined into complex organic compounds and how the latter might have formed the primordial organism. When Oparin was nine, his family moved to Moscow because there was no secondary school in their village. While majoring in plant physiology at Moscow ...(100 of 840 words)

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