Jakub Karol Parnas Scientist
Jakub Karol Parnas, also known as Yakov Oskarovich Parnas (Russian: Яков Оскарович Парнас) (January 16, 1884 – January 29, 1949) was a prominent Jewish-Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway, together with Otto Fritz Meyerhof and Gustav Georg Embden. He became a Soviet activist after the annexation of Western Ukraine in 1939, but he was murdered during the Stalinist Doctors' Plot purge in 1949.
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| Alias (AKA) | Parnas Yakov Oskarovitch; Парнас Яков Оскарович (Russian) |
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| Birth date | January 16, 1884 |
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| Date of death | January 29, 1949 |
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