Jacob Parnas
Jacob Parnas · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who helped elucidate glycolysis (the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway).
1884, Mokrzany, Galicia, Austria-Hungary — 1949, Moscow, Soviet Union
Poland · Soviet Union
Jacob Parnas is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biochemist who helped elucidate glycolysis (the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway).
Parnas was a biochemist who helped elucidate glycolysis, the central pathway of sugar metabolism now called the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway, and pioneered the use of radioactive phosphorus in biological research. He was born into a Jewish family in Galicia; after the Soviet annexation of Lviv he worked in the USSR, where he died in Moscow after arrest during Stalin's persecution of Jewish scientists.
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Biochemist who helped elucidate glycolysis (the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway).
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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