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Alexander Oparin: Biography

Alexander Oparin was a Russian biochemist born in 1894 who developed the influential "primordial soup" theory of the origin of life on Earth. He proposed that life began through the gradual chemical evolution of carbon-based molecules in a "primordial soup" on the early Earth. As a professor of biochemistry at Moscow State University, Oparin devoted considerable effort to enzymology and helped establish the foundations of industrial biochemistry in the USSR. He received numerous awards for his seminal contributions to understanding the origin of life on our planet.

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Alexander Oparin: Biography

Alexander Oparin was a Russian biochemist born in 1894 who developed the influential "primordial soup" theory of the origin of life on Earth. He proposed that life began through the gradual chemical evolution of carbon-based molecules in a "primordial soup" on the early Earth. As a professor of biochemistry at Moscow State University, Oparin devoted considerable effort to enzymology and helped establish the foundations of industrial biochemistry in the USSR. He received numerous awards for his seminal contributions to understanding the origin of life on our planet.

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ALEXANDER OPARIN

BIOGRAPHY:
Alexander (or Aleksandr) Ivanovich Oparin was born on 2 March 1894
in Uglich, Russia. When he was nine years old, his family moved to
Moscow because there was no secondary school in their village. He
attended Moscow State University, majoring in plant physiology, where
he was influenced by K. A. Timiryazev, a Russian plant physiologist
who had known the English naturalist Charles Darwin, and Darwin’s
work was to greatly influence Oparin’s later ideas. He graduated from
the Moscow State University in 1917, and became a professor of
biochemistry there in 1927.

In 1924, Oparin officially put forward his influential theory that life on


Earth developed through gradual chemical evolution of carbon-
based molecules in a “primordial soup”, at just about the same time as
the British biologist J. B. S. Haldane was independently proposing a
similar theory. As early as 1922, at a meeting of the Russian Botanical
Society, he had first introduced his concept of a primordial organism
arising in a brew of already-formed organic compounds.

Primordial soup: the theory of the origin of life on the earth

Enzymology is the study of enzymes, their kinetics, structure, and function, as well as their
relation to each other.

Contribution
contributions to the theory of the origin of life on Earth, and particularly
for the “primordial soup” theory of the evolution of life from
carbon-based molecules. Oparin also devoted considerable effort
to enzymology and helped to develop the foundations of industrial
biochemistry in the USSR. He received numerous decorations
and awards for his work, and has been called “the Darwin of the
20th Century”.
Social context:

The basics of his theory

According to Oparin, the process that concluded with the appearance

of living beings can be explained through the transformation of simple

proteins into organic aggregates as a result of functional affinity.

The primitive broth is the denomination that Oparin gave to his

hypothesis about the origin of life, and that is one of the most

accepted.

It consists in the experiment of reproducing in a closed place all the

conditions that were present on the planet millions of years ago,

together with the primitive broth, that is, the elements that were at that

time with their respective proportions.

More things about it

Oparin was the first to expose the existence of the first living beings -

prior to the cells - whom he called "coacervates." On the other hand, he

also devoted great efforts to enzymology and helped develop

fundamentals of industrial biochemistry in the Soviet Union.


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