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Severo Ochoa
Full Name of the recipient | Severo Ochoa |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1959 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | Arthur Kornberg (50.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | New York University, College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA |
Place of Birth | Luarca, Spain ESP |
Date of Birth | 24 September 1905 |
Age at the time of Award | 53 years |
Place of Death | Madrid, Spain ESP |
Date of Death | 1 November 1993 |