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Severo Ochoa's Nobel Prize

Historical milestone · Valdés, Eo-Navia, Asturias

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The biochemist born in Luarca on 24 September 1905 received the 1959 Nobel Prize in Medicine, shared with Arthur Kornberg, for his work on the synthesis of RNA; he is buried in the cemetery of his native town.

1959

Photo: David Perez (CC BY 4.0)

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