1894 - 1980
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, Alexander Oparin ranks 68 out of 841. Before 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.
1890 - 1967
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 62
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 63
1903 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 64
1899 - 1972
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 65
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 66
1668 - 1738
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 67
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 68
1897 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 69
1938 - 2011
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 70
1926 - 2015
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 71
1941 - Present
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 72
1924 - Present
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 73
1864 - 1920
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 74
Among people born in 1894, Alexander Oparin ranks 29. Before 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 37. Before 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.
1894 - 1991
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 23
1894 - 1989
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 24
1894 - 1984
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 25
1894 - 1961
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 26
1894 - 1952
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 27
1894 - 1979
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 28
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 29
1894 - 1989
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 30
1894 - 1974
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 31
1894 - 1945
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 32
1894 - 1978
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 33
1894 - 1981
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 34
1894 - 1949
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 35
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 31
1917 - 1980
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 32
1948 - 1980
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 33
1925 - 1980
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 34
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 35
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 36
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 37
1911 - 1980
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 38
1893 - 1980
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 39
1904 - 1980
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 40
1905 - 1980
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 41
1902 - 1980
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 42
1913 - 1980
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 43
Among people born in Russia, Alexander Oparin ranks 252 out of 3,262. Before 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).
1921 - 2010
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 246
1856 - 1929
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 247
1837 - 1887
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 248
1880 - 1921
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 249
1889 - 1968
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 250
1938 - 2010
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 251
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 252
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 253
1827 - 1892
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 254
1880 - 1938
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 255
1795 - 1829
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 256
1261 - 1303
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 257
1788 - 1819
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 258
Among biologists born in Russia, Alexander Oparin ranks 4. Before 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).
1849 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 1
1887 - 1943
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 2
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 3
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 4
1864 - 1920
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 5
1855 - 1935
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 6
1810 - 1881
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 7
1870 - 1932
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 8
1815 - 1894
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 9
1916 - 1998
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 10
1827 - 1885
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 11
1843 - 1920
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 12