Severo Ochoa - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1959
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Severo Ochoa

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1959
for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
Together with: Arthur Kornberg
Citizenship
SpainSpainUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
English, Spanish
date of birth
9/24/1905
place of birth
Ḷḷuarca
date of death
11/1/1993
place of death
Madrid
Lived
88 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
  • writer
  • physician
  • scientist
field of work
  • biochemistry
  • molecular biology
educated at
  • Universidad Central
  • Complutense University of Madrid
  • Grossman School of Medicine
  • Instituto San Isidoro
employer
  • Heidelberg University
  • Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center
  • University of Washington
  • New York University
  • Autonomous University of Madrid
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal National Academy of Medicine
    • start time: 1987
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1957
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1961
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Arthur Kornberg
  • Santiago Grisolía García
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