Jakub Karol Parnas
Jakub Karol Parnas, also known as Yakov Oskarovich Parnas was a prominent JewishPolishSoviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the EmbdenMeyerhofParnas 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.
Parnas was born in 1884 in Mokriany near Drohobych, at that time part of the AustroHungarian Empire, in the province of Galicia , to Jewish parents. He graduated from the Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg in 1904. From 1920 to 1941, he was head of the Institute of the Medical Chemistry at Lviv University. He traveled across Europe, collaborating with universities in Cambridge, Naples, Strasbourg, Ghent and Zurich. He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well an honorary doctor of Sorbonne University and the University of Athens.
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