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Jakub Karol Parnas

Polish biochemist and politician (1884-1949) · Academics · Died at 65

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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.

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Awards

Doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris1945
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1942
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Academics born in the 1880s 6

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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.

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1884 to 1949 · aged 65

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