Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American biochemist, and the recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Severo Ochoa was born in Luarca (Asturias), Spain. His father was Severo Manuel Ochoa, a lawyer and businessman, and his mother, Carmen de Albornoz. His father died when Ochoa was seven and he and his mother moved to Málaga, where he attended school through high school. Wikipedia
Severo Ochoa was born at Luarca, Spain, on September 24th, 1905. He is the son of Severo Ochoa , a lawyer and business man, and Carmen de Albornoz. Ochoa was educated at Málaga College, where he took his B.A. degree in 1921. * His interest in biology w www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1959/ochoa-bio.html
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