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Severo Ochoa

Spanish physician

Lived
1905–1993
Country
United States

Updated September 2026

About Severo Ochoa

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".

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