Severo Ochoa

Born: 1905-09-24 in Luarca, Spain

Gender: male

Field: Spanish biochemist and Nobel laureate (1905–1993)

Biography

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959

Awarded on: 1959-10-15

"for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"

Affiliations:

New York University, College of Medicine – New York, NY, USA

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