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BIOLOGIST

Alexander Oparin

1894 - 1980

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Alexander Ivanovich Oparin (Russian: Александр Иванович Опарин; March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1894 – April 21, 1980) was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book The Origin of Life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Oparin has received more than 281,617 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Alexander Oparin is the 68th most popular biologist (up from 70th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 263rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Biologist.

Alexander Oparin is a Russian cosmonaut who has been in space three times. He first became a cosmonaut in 1986 and has spent a total of 611 days in space. He is most famous for his two space walks, one in 1995 and one in 1997.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Oparin ranks 68 out of 841Before him are Hermann Joseph Muller, Linda B. Buck, George Beadle, Max Theiler, John Edward Gray, and Herman Boerhaave. After him are John Franklin Enders, Lynn Margulis, Irwin Rose, Jules A. Hoffmann, Roger Guillemin, and Dmitri Ivanovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alexander Oparin ranks 29Before him are Martha Graham, Hermann Oberth, Pyotr Kapitsa, Dashiell Hammett, Kiichiro Toyoda, and Wilhelm Bittrich. After him are Kōnosuke Matsushita, Satyendra Nath Bose, Arthur Nebe, Norman Rockwell, Karl Böhm, and Fyodor Tolbukhin. Among people deceased in 1980, Alexander Oparin ranks 37Before him are Gregory Bateson, Óscar Romero, John Bonham, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Hans Morgenthau, and Willard Libby. After him are William Howard Stein, Mae West, Alejo Carpentier, Marian Rejewski, Fritz Strassmann, and Vinicius de Moraes.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Oparin ranks 252 out of 3,262Before him are Vasily Smyslov (1921), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Alexander Blok (1880), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), and Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938). After him are Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Bruno Taut (1880), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Daniel of Moscow (1261), and Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Alexander Oparin ranks 4Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), and Vladimir Vernadsky (1863). After him are Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), and Kliment Timiryazev (1843).