Luis Federico Lelouira ( Spanish: Luis Federico Leloir ; September 6, 1906 , Paris - December 2, 1987 , Buenos Aires ) - Argentine physician and biochemist, the first Spanish-speaking Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
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| Luis Federico Leloir | |
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| Date of Birth | September 6, 1906 |
| Place of Birth | Paris , France |
| Date of death | December 2, 1987 (81 year) |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires , Argentina |
| A country |  Argentina |
| Scientific field | biochemistry |
| Place of work | University of Cambridge, University of Washington , Columbia University |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Academic degree | ( 1932 ) |
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| Awards and prizes | Louise Gross Horwitz Award (1967)  Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( 1970 ) |
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Biography
He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires ( 1932 ). In 1934 - 1935 , 1937 - 1943 he worked at the Institute of Physiology at this university (since 1941, Professor of Physiology). In 1936, in the biochemical laboratory of the University of Cambridge . In 1943 he moved to the United States . Worked in Washington ( 1944 ) and Columbia Universities ( 1944 - 1945 ). In 1946 he returned to Argentina . Since 1946, the head of the biochemical laboratory of the Institute of Physiology.
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1960) [2] , American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1961), Royal Society of London (1972) [3] , Academy of Sciences of Argentina .
Major Works
Works on the metabolism of carbohydrates in living cells , as well as carbohydrate derivatives of nucleotides . Leloir and his colleagues studied glycoproteins, showed the main ways of galactose metabolism, as well as the development of galactosemia - the causes of lactose immunity . Together with a group of employees, he identified and studied many enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism.
Nobel Prize
On December 2, 1970, Leloir received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the metabolic pathways of lactose . The prize in the amount of 80,000 dollars Leloir spent on research.
See also
- Leloire Institute
Notes
- ↑ The Academic Family Tree - 2005.
- ↑ Luis F. Leloir (English)
- ↑ Leloir; Luis Federico (1906 - 1987) (English)