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Severo Ochoa

Ochoa, Severo (1905–93), Spanish-born U.S. biochemist who shared with Arthur K. Kornberg the 1959 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for first synthesizing a nucleic acid (RNA).

See also: Biochemistry; Nucleic acid.

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