By BH
I am doing a narrative on a historical scientist named Severo Ochoa de Albornoz aka Severo Ochoa. He is a physician and biochemist and his ethnicity was Spanish-American. Ochoa was born on September 24th, 1905 in Luarca, Spain and he died on November 1st, 1993 in Madrid Spain. His father was a lawyer and a businessman which is interesting because that means they were both really successful.
In 1959 Ochoa was a joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in physiology with Arthur Kornberg. He discovered an enzyme that enables the synthesis of RNA allowing scientists to recreate the cell process that translates hereditary genes. The two were honored for the "discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA according to Nobel Prize. He also got a medical degree in 1929.
The college Ochoa went to was the University of Madrid and the University of Heidelberg. He also spent 2 years in Germany doing research with Otto Meyerhof and moved to the United States in the early 40s. He retired from NYU in 1974 and joined the Roche Institute continuing his research. He retired from Roche in the mid-80s and returned to Spain with his wife Carmen Garcia Corbian. Severo Ochoa was a brilliant and successful person and he should be recognized for his work often.
I am doing a narrative on a historical scientist named Severo Ochoa de Albornoz aka Severo Ochoa. He is a physician and biochemist and his ethnicity was Spanish-American. Ochoa was born on September 24th, 1905 in Luarca, Spain and he died on November 1st, 1993 in Madrid Spain. His father was a lawyer and a businessman which is interesting because that means they were both really successful.
In 1959 Ochoa was a joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in physiology with Arthur Kornberg. He discovered an enzyme that enables the synthesis of RNA allowing scientists to recreate the cell process that translates hereditary genes. The two were honored for the "discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA according to Nobel Prize. He also got a medical degree in 1929.
The college Ochoa went to was the University of Madrid and the University of Heidelberg. He also spent 2 years in Germany doing research with Otto Meyerhof and moved to the United States in the early 40s. He retired from NYU in 1974 and joined the Roche Institute continuing his research. He retired from Roche in the mid-80s and returned to Spain with his wife Carmen Garcia Corbian. Severo Ochoa was a brilliant and successful person and he should be recognized for his work often.