Jakub Karol Parnas

Date of birth: 01/16/1884 | Date of death: 01/29/1949

Occupation or position: 
Biochemist

Jakub Karol Parnas was born in 1884 in Mokriany near Drohobych, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the province of Galicia (now split between Poland and Ukraine). Jakub Karol Parnas  was a prominent Jewish-Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway.

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