Severo Ochoa

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959

“for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid”

Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-American biochemist. He shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid. He worked at New York University College of Medicine.