BIOLOGIST

Alexander Oparin

1894 - 1980

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Oparin has received more than 297,823 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Alexander Oparin is the 69th most popular biologist (down from 68th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 251st 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Oparin ranks 69 out of 1,097. Before him are Trofim Lysenko, Irwin Rose, Linda B. Buck, André Michel Lwoff, August Weismann, and Ulisse Aldrovandi. After him are Robert Edwards, Ferdinand Cohn, Herman Boerhaave, Max Theiler, Ernst Mayr, and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alexander Oparin ranks 25. Before him are Isaac Babel, Dietrich von Choltitz, Kiichiro Toyoda, Alfred Kinsey, Satyendra Nath Bose, and Heinrich Lübke. After him are Pyotr Kapitsa, Otto Grotewohl, Hermann Oberth, Benjamin Graham, Kim Hyong-jik, and Fyodor Tolbukhin. Among people deceased in 1980, Alexander Oparin ranks 31. Before him are Oswald Mosley, Romain Gary, Milton H. Erickson, John Bonham, Fritz Strassmann, and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. After him are Óscar Romero, Gregory Bateson, Hans Morgenthau, Alejo Carpentier, William Howard Stein, and Bill Evans.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Oparin ranks 222 out of 3,761. Before him are Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Gustav Bauer (1870), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857). After him are Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Nikolay Basov (1922), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Oleg Antonov (1906), and Bruno Taut (1880).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

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

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