Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa de Albornozwas a Spanish physician and biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth25 September 1905
CountrySpain
few medical patients practiced treated
I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.
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The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
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Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.
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Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.