Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin

Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin

Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin born on March 2 1894, in the small village of Uglich, near Moscow, Oparin was the Principal Pioneer, along with Haldane, in theorizing the origin of life from inorganic matters. Apart from being a great authority in the origin of life, his other works include, the study of vegetable raw material processing and enzyme reaction in plant cells. He founded the industrial biochemistry in USSR

Oparin became Hero of Socialist Labour in 1969, received the Lenin Prize in 1974 and was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1979 “for outstanding achievements in biochemistry”. He was awarded five Orders of Lenin