What is Alexander Oparin?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Alexander Oparin |image =Oparin.jpg |image_size = |alt = |caption = Oparin (right) in his laboratory |birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|3|2|mf=yes}} |birth_place = [[Uglich]], [[Russian Empire]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|4|21|1894|3|2|mf=yes}} |death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[USSR]] |residence = |citizenship = [[Soviet Union]] |nationality = [[Russia]]n |ethnicity = |fields = [[Biochemistry]] |workplaces = [[Moscow State University]]<br />[[USSR Academy of Sciences]] |alma_mater = [[Moscow State University]] |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = Theory of the [[Abiogenesis|origin of life]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = [[Hero of Socialist Labour]] (1969)<br />[[Lenin Prize]] (1974)<br />[[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] (1979) |religion = |signature = <!--(filename only)--> |signature_alt = |footnotes = }} '''Alexander Ivanovich Oparin''' <ref>{{lang-ru|Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Опа́рин}}; in English, Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/429565/Aleksandr-Oparin Britannica Encyclopedia] - Aleksandr Oparin</ref> ([[Uglich]], [[Russia]], {{OldStyleDate|2 March|1894|18 February}} – [[Moscow]], 21 April 1980) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[biochemist]]. He was notable for his ideas on the [[origin of life]], and for writing an early book ''The Origin of Life''.<ref>Oparin A I. ''The Origin of Life''. Moscow: Moscow Worker publisher, 1924 (in Russian)</ref> One of his ideas was that [[oxygen]] would tend to destroy [[Organic chemistry|organic]] [[molecule]]s essential for the evolution of early life. It was later found that the [[earth's atmosphere]] at first had almost no oxygen in it.<ref>Knoll, Andrew H. 2004. ''Life on a yo