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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Alexander Oparin
![Alexander Oparin](/apics/alexander-oparin.jpg)
Born: March 2, 1894
Died: April 21, 1980 (aged 86)
Bio: Alexander Ivanovich Oparin was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book The Origin of Life. He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells.
Known for:
- Genesis and Evolutionary Development of Life (1968)
- The Origin of Life on the Earth (1957)
- The Universe
- The Origin of Life (1953)