Awards & Winners

Severo Ochoa

Date of Birth 24-September-1905
Place of Birth Luarca
(Spain)
Nationality Spain, United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany
Also know as Dr. Severo Ochoa
Profession Physician, Chemist
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish - American Doctor of Medicine and Biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg.

Awards by Severo Ochoa

Check all the awards nominated and won by Severo Ochoa.

1979


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For important contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology, discoveries that contributed greatly to our understanding of the mechanisms for energy generation within a cell, the mechanism whereby proteins are synthesized within a cell and the elucidation of the genetic code.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For important contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology, discoveries that contributed greatly to our understanding of the mechanisms for energy generation within a cell, the mechanism whereby proteins are synthesized within a cell and the elucidation of the genetic code.)

1959


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid)