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.
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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.
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