Aleksei Bach

Aleksei Bach
Born
Abel Lipmanovich Bak

(1857-03-17)17 March 1857
Zolotonosha, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died13 May 1946(1946-05-13) (aged 89)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
OccupationChemist
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Aleksei Nikolayevich Bach or Bakh (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Бах; 17 March [O.S. 5 March] 1857 – 13 May 1946) was a Russian and Soviet biochemist and revolutionary. A prominent populist in the late 1870s and early 1880s, Bach left Russia before returning after the October Revolution in 1917. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and senior member of the Supreme Soviet.