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Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body. Although born in France, Leloir received the majority of his education at the University of Buenos Aires and was director of the private research group Fundación Instit…
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science · Argentine physician and biochemist (1906–1987) · physician · biochemist · physicist · university teacher · chemist · also Luis Federico Leloir, Leloir
Born 6 September 1906 · Died 2 December 1987 · Q233985
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“This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understand this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.”
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INFOnews: Hace 50 años Luis Federico Leloir recibía el Nobel de Química
Of a heart attack soon after returning to his home from the laboratory, and is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery
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Died 1987-12-02.
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Awarded TWAS fellow (1983).
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Awarded diamond Konex award (1983).
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Leloir became one of the founding members of the Third World Academy of Sciences, later renamed The World Academy of Sciences
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Awarded Legion of Honour (1982).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1972).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-II (1972).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates.
Leloir received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry from the King of Sweden for his discovery of the metabolic pathways in lactose, becoming only the third Argentine to receive the prestigious honor in any field at the time
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1970).
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Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1967).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Granada (1967).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1966).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1963).
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The institute found a new home in a former all-girls school, a donation from the Argentine government
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Leloir and his team applied to the National Institutes of Health in the United States desperate for funding, and surprisingly was accepted
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Would later win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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Leloir ended his exile and returned to Argentina to work under Houssay at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de la Fundación Campomar, which Leloir would direct from its creation in 1947 by businessman and patr
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Traveled to England to begin advanced studies at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of another Nobel Prize winner, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, who had obtained that distinction in 1929 for his work
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Met Bernardo Houssay, who pointed Leloir towards investigating in his doctoral thesis the suprarenal glands and carbohydrate metabolism
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And began his residency in the Hospital de Clínicas and his medical internship in Ramos Mejía hospital
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Leloir lived together with his eight siblings on their family's extensive property El Tuyú that his grandparents had purchased after their immigration from the Basque Country of northern Spain: El Tuyú comprises 400 km2
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Born 1906-09-06.
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