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 ".
19 Facts About Severo Ochoa
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Severo Ochoa's father was Severo Manuel Ochoa, a lawyer and businessman, and his mother was Carmen de Albornoz.
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Severo Ochoa's father died when Ochoa was seven, and he and his mother moved to Malaga, where he attended elementary school through high school.
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Severo Ochoa studied with father Pedro Arrupe, and Juan Negrin was his teacher:.
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Severo Ochoa refined the assay procedure further and upon returning to Spain he and Valdecasas submitted a paper describing the work to the Journal of Biological Chemistry, where it was rapidly accepted, marking the beginning of Ochoa's biochemistry career.
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Severo Ochoa completed his undergraduate medical degree in the summer of 1929 and decide to go abroad again to gain further research experience.
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At that time the institute was a "hot bed" of the rapidly evolving discipline of biochemistry, and thus Severo Ochoa had the experience of meeting and interacting with scientists such as Otto Heinrich Warburg, Carl Neuberg, Einar Lundsgaard, and Fritz Lipmann in addition to Meyerhof who had received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine less than a decade earlier.
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In 1930 Severo Ochoa returned to Madrid to complete research for his MD thesis, which he defended that year.
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Severo Ochoa then began postdoctoral study at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, where he worked with Henry Hallett Dale.
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Severo Ochoa's London research involved the enzyme glyoxalase and was an important departure in Ochoa's career in two respects.
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Severo Ochoa left Spain and returned to Meyerhof's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology now relocated in Heidelberg, where Severo Ochoa found a profoundly changed research focus.
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Severo Ochoa then went to the United States, where he again held many positions at several universities.
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Between 1940 and 1942, Severo Ochoa worked for Washington University's School of Medicine.
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Severo Ochoa was elected to both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957.
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Severo Ochoa was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1961.
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Severo Ochoa continued research on protein synthesis and replication of RNA viruses until 1985, when he returned to now democratic Spain where he was a science advisor.
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Severo Ochoa was a recipient of US National Medal of Science in 1978.
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Severo Ochoa died in Madrid, Spain on 1 November 1993.
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Severo Ochoa was married, and besides, him doing research and me doing films wasn't a good match.