Latinos+in+History


 * Resources**
 * Scholastic - Latinos in History
 * FactMonster.com
 * [|Wikipedia]

http://www.biography.com/people/severo-ochoa-9426631#synopsis&awesm=~oB8X12fGZke1kw

Severo Ochoa:

 * Born on September 24, 1905 at Luarca, Asturias, Spain.
 * Went to medical school at the University of Madrid.
 * After graduating in 1929, Ochoa spent time in Germany doing research because of the Spanish Civil War.
 * Returned to Spain and taught at the Univerisity of Madrid's medical school.
 * 1940s, moved to United States and he worked with Carl Cori and Gerti cori at Washington University befire joining the faculty of New York University.
 * In 1959, Ochoa was named a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering an enzyme that enables the snthesis of RNA, allowing scientists to recreate the cell process that translates hereditary genes.
 * Died in Madrid in 1993.
 * Ochoa was educated at a Jesuit school in Malaga before attending the University of Madrid.