# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jakub-karol-parnas
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:34:35.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jakub-karol-parnas"
name: "Jakub Karol Parnas"
slug: "jakub-karol-parnas"
description: "Jakub Karol Parnas, also known as Yakov Oskarovich Parnas was a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway, together with Otto Fritz Meyerhof and Gustav Embden. He became a Soviet activist after the annexation of Western Ukraine in 1939. He was arrested during the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee affair in 1949 and died in the prison, reportedly of heart attack."
tagline: "Polish biochemist and politician (1884–1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jakub_Parnas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1884-01-16"
deathDate: "1949-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.92
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           10.48067066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ژاکوب کارول پارناس"
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    title: "Jakub Karol Parnas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jakub Karol Parnas"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "იაკოვ პარნასი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Parnas"
    title: "Jakub Parnas"
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    title: "Парнас, Яков Оскарович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jakub Karol Parnas"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump