Severo Ochoa Quotes

Spain, Scientist
September 24, 1905 – November, 1, 1993.

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American physician and biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

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Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.

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The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

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Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

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