biography
| name: |
Leloir, Luis Federico
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pronunciation:
[luhlwah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–87)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Paris, France. He studied in Buenos Aires and at Cambridge, then worked mainly in Argentina, where he set up his own Research Institute in 1947, and discovered how glycogen, the energy storage material, is synthesized in the body (1957). For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1970, the first Argentinian to be so honoured. |
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