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Severo Ochoa

 * Born in September 24, 1905 in Luarca, Asturias, Spain.
 * Went to medical school at the University of Madrid
 * Educated at a Jesuit school in Malaga before attending the University of Madrid.
 * Earned medical degree in 1929.
 * After graduation, Ochoa continued his studies abroad, spending two years in Germany doing research with Otto Meyerhof.
 * In the early 1930s, Ochoa returned to Spain and joined the faculty of the University of Madrid.
 * The outbreak of the Spanish war in 1936 led him to find oppurtunities elsewhere such as Germany and England, before moving to the United States in the early 40s.
 * In the United States, he worked with Carl Cori and Gerti Cori at Washington Univeristy in St. Louis, Missouri.
 * Later, he began to work at New York University's School of Medicine, beginning in the school's pharmacology department and joining its biochemistry department in the 1950s. Ochoa became head of the department in 1954.
 * He is most famous for is research of RNA. Ochoa was able to create RNA--important in protien production and the transfer of genetic information--synthetically using a bacterial enzyme called polynucleotide phosphorylase.
 * This discovery allowed Ochoa top create a virus in a test tube, opening doorways for to further medical and genetic research.
 * Awarded with the Nobel Prize in Psysiology or medicine, an honor he shared with his fellow biochemist collegue Arthur Kornberg.
 * After retiring from NYU in 1974, he joined the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, where he continued his research.
 * In the mid 1980s he retired from Roche Institute and returned to Spain.
 * Severo Ochoa died on November 1, 1993.

Severo Ochoa was born on September 24, 1905 in Luarca (Asturias),Spain;

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