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Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was born in September 24, 1905, in the city of Luarca (Asturias), Spain. His father was Severo Manuel Ochoa, a lawyer and businessman, and his mother was Carmen de Albornoz. Ochoa was the nephew of Albornoz (President of the Second Spanish Republic in exile, 1947-1951), and a cousin of the poet and literary poet and critic Aurora de Albornoz. His father died when Ochoa was seven and he and his mother moved to Malaga, where he attended an Jesuit elementary through high school. (Severo Ochoa Wikipedia)

His interest in biology was impassioned by the publications of the Spanish neurologist and acclaimed Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Santiago Ramon y Cajal. In 1923, he went to the University of Madrid Medical School, where he hoped to work with Cajal, but he retired. He studied with father Pedro Arrupe and Juan Negrin as teachers.(Bio)

One of his teachers, Juan Negrin, encouraged Ochoa and another student, Jose Valdecasas, to isolate creatinine (the breakdown product in muscle), from urine. They managed to succeed and also developed a method to measure small levels of muscle creatinine. Ochoa spent the summer of 1927 in Glasgow working with D. Noel Paron on creatine metabolism improving his English skills. Together, he and Valdecasas submitted a paper describing the work to the //Journal of Biological Chemistry,// which marked the beginning of Ochoa's biochemistry career.

Ochoa completed his undergraduate medical degree in the summer of 1929 and developed the interest of going abroad to gain more advanced research experience. In addition to this, Ochoa travels to Germany for two years doing research with Otto Meyerhof, Otto Meyerhof's laboratory at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem in 1929. At that time the Institute was a major center of the rapidly evolving discipline of biochemistry, and thus Ochoa had the experience of meeting and interacting with scientists wuch as Otto 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.(The Editors)

In 1933 the Ochoas returned to Madrid where he began to study glucose in heart muscle. Within two years, he was offered the dictatorship of the Psysiology Section in a newly created institute for Medical Research at the University of Madrid Medical School. Unfortunately, the appointment was made just as the Spanish civil war broke out. In September 1936, Severo and his wife, Carmen traveled from Spain to Germany, to England, and then to the United States within a span of four years.(Severo Ochoa Biochemist)

In the United States, he worked with Carl Cori and Gerti Cori at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1942, he moved to New York University School of Medicine and he became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry (1945), Professor of Pharmacology (1946), Professor of Biochemistry (1954), and Chairman of the Department of BIochemistry. In 1956, he became an American citizen, and in 1959, Ochoa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for his work on RNA.(Severo)

"Severo Ochoa continued research on protein syntheses and replication of RNA cells until 1985, when he returned to Spain. Ochoa was also a recipient of U.S. National Medal of Science in 1979. Severo Ochoa died in Madrid, Spain on November 1, 1993. In the honor of him, various things were built and named in his name. A new research center that was planed in the 1970s was finally built and named after Ochoa. Also, the asteroid 117435 Severochoa is also named in his honor. Lastly, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp honoring him, as part of the //American Scientists// collection. In addition to this, the University of Madrid has made the Severo Ochoa Monument outside the School of Medicine of the University of Madrid."(Severo Ochoa Wikipedia)

Biography

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