The Washington Post, November 3rd, 1993
Severo Ochoa, 88, a biochemist who was a co-winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for his pioneering work on DNA that helped to set the foundation for modern molecular biology, died Nov. 1 at a hospital in Madrid after a stroke. He had a heart ailment. He and a former student, Stanford University biochemist Arthur Kornberg, were awarded the Nobel for the laboratory synthesis of DNA, the genetic building blocks of life. Dr. Ochoa's work helped scientists understand how hereditary information contained in the genes is transmitted. Dr. Ochoa synthesized ribonucleic acid, or R...
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