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Severo Ochoa
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Severo Ochoa

1905 – 1993 · aged 88

Spanish physician

Born
24 Sept 1905 · Ḷḷuarca
Died
1 Nov 1993 · Madrid
Part ofSpain264 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 101 years
  1. 24 Sept 1905BornBorn in Ḷḷuarca
  2. 1955AwardGrand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
  3. 1959AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  4. 1965AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  5. 1967AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Granada
  6. 1967AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Oviedo
  7. 1977AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Civil Health
  8. 1979AwardNational Medal of Science
  9. 1985AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Valencia
  10. 1987AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Malaga
  11. 1988AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of the Basque Country
  12. 1988AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid
  13. 1989AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Miami
  14. 1 Nov 1993DiedDied in Madrid

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1905 – 1993).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (Spanish: [seˈβeɾo oˈtʃoa ðe alβoɾˈnoθ]; 24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".

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