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= **Severo Ochoa** = =**Arthur Kornberg**=
 * Nobel Prize winner in 1959(Scholastic)
 * Born in September 24, 1905 in Luarca, Spain(Nobel prize)
 * Went to the medical school University of Madrid(Nobel prize)
 * Discovered the ability to produce synthetic RNA(Scholastic)
 * Died 1993 in Madrid(Biography)
 * Did work in Washington University and New York University(Biography)
 * Married 1931 to Carmen García Cobian(Biography)
 * Attended Jesuit High School(Biography)
 * Nobel Prize winner in 1959 (Nobel prize)
 * Born in Brooklynn (Nobel prize)
 * In 1918 (Nobel prize)
 * Received undergraduates degree from the city college of New York in 1937 (Nobel prize)
 * Received medical degree from the University of Rochester in 1937 (Nobel prize)

Hispanic men and women have had a big impact in the science and technology fields. Severo Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg have had a very large impact in the science field. They both won the Nobel Prize for science. (Severo Ochoa Biography)

Severo Ochoa was born September 24, 1905, in Luarca, Spain. His father was a lawyer and businessman. Severo Ochoa’s father passed away when he was only 7 years old. He attended Jesuit High School. (Severo Ochoa de Albornoz) He went to Málaga College, where he earned his bachelor degree in 1921. He also went to the Medical School of the University of Madrid. He got his medical degree in 1929. (Severo Ochoa Biography) After graduating he went to German for 2 years to do research with Otto Meyerhof. (Severo Ochoa de Albornoz)

In the 1930s he returned to Spain. He started working at the University of Madrid. He left Spain because of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He moved to Germany, then to England, and finally to the United States in the 1940s. ( Severo Ochoa de Albornoz)

His first job in the United States was at the Washington University. Then he worked New York University, the School of Medicine department. He started working in the biochemistry department in the 1950s. Then he was promoted to the head in 1954. He is famous for his RNA (ribonucleic acid) experiments. In the 1950s he was successfully able to produce a synthetic version of RNA. RNA is important for protein production. This allowed him to create a virus in a test tube. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize for his discovery. He shared his award with Arthur Kornberg. Arthur Kornberg was an older student of Ochoa’s. He successfully created a synthetic version of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). (Severo Ochoa de Albornoz)

Arthur Kornberg was born in Brooklynn, New York in 1918. He grew up going to Brooklynn’s public schools. He received his undergraduate’s degree from the city college of New York in 1937. He received his medical degree from the University of Rochester in 1941. He was assigned to the navy as a ship doctor. Then he became research scientist National Institutes of Health in Maryland from 1942 to 1953. He trained with his professor Severo Ochoa at the New York University of Medicine in 1946. ( Arthur Kornberg Biography)

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his discovery. He discovered a way to successfully create a synthetic version of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). He shared his award with his former professor Severo Ochoa. Severo Ochoa won for his discovery. He discovered a way to successfully make a synthetic RNA (ribonucleic acid). ( Severo Ochoa de Albornoz)