Severo Ochoa Quotes

Severo Ochoa — Spanish Scientist born on September 24, 1905, died on November 01, 1993

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg... (wikipedia)

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.