Severo Ochoa

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American physician, biochemist, and university teacher. Born in 1905 and dying in Madrid in 1993, he held citizenship in Spain and the United States. His professional work focused on biochemistry and molecular biology. He served as a writer and was educated at the Universidad Central, Grossman School of Medicine, and Complutense University of Madrid.

Ochoa received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the National Medal of Science, and the Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin. His employers included New York University, the University of Washington, Heidelberg University, and the Autonomous University of Madrid.

He wrote six works, including the Jiménez Díaz memorial lectures and *Viruses, oncogenes and cancer*. His doctoral advisor was Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and he studied under Juan Negrín. He earned a doctorate and had doctoral students Arthur Kornberg and Santiago Grisolía García. He spoke Spanish and English.