PHYSIOLOGY/MEDICINE - Severo Ochoa 1959 - Madrid, España
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N 40° 26.672 W 003° 43.520
30T E 438489 N 4477350
Premio Nobel en 1959 // Nobel Prize in 1959
Waymark Code: WM19ZRT
Location: Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
Date Posted: 05/21/2024
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member silverquill
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[ES] Monumento que la Universidad Complutense dedicó a Severo Ochoa en las inmediaciones de la Facultad de Medicina.

El conjunto está formado por un bloque de mármol al que está adosado un busto de gran expresividad realizado en bronce, debajo del mismo está grabada la firma del doctor.

Es obra del escultor Víctor Ochoa y fue inaugurado en 1992 por los Reyes de España.


Severo Ochoa, (Luarca, Asturias, 1905 – Madrid, 1993), destacó en la investigación sobre el mecanismo de la síntesis biológica del ácido ribonucleico (ARN) y del ácido desoxirribonucleico (ADN). En 1954 descubrió una enzima, la polinucleótido fosforilasa (PNPasa), capaz de sintetizar ARN in vitro a partir de ribonucleosidodifosfatos. Este hallazgo dio lugar a la preparación de polinucleótidos sintéticos de distinta composición de bases, que permitieron a la ciencia el posterior desciframiento del código genético.

Estudió en Málaga y, estimulado por las investigaciones de Ramón y Cajal, se trasladó a Madrid para cursar estudios de medicina en la Universidad Complutense. Vivió en la Residencia de Estudiantes, donde fue compañero de grandes intelectuales y artistas, como García Lorca o Salvador Dalí. Le fueron concedidas varias becas para ampliar sus estudios en las Universidades de Glasgow, Berlín, Londres y Heidelberg. Ya en 1931 fue nombrado profesor ayudante de Fisiología y Bioquímica de la Facultad de Medicina de Madrid.

Con el estallido de la Guerra Civil Española se marchó al Laboratorio de Meyerhof de Heidelberg para poder seguir investigando. La invasión nazi no tardó en llegar y se trasladó primero a Plymouth y, después, a la Universidad de Oxford. Emigró a los Estados Unidos en 1941, esta vez a causa del estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Comenzó en la Universidad de Washington y, en 1942, pasó a trabajar en la Universidad de Nueva York, donde permanecería gran parte de su vida.”

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[EN] Monument that the Complutense University dedicated to Severo Ochoa in the vicinity of the Faculty of Medicine.

The set is made up of a block of marble to which is attached a highly expressive bust made of bronze, beneath which the doctor's signature is engraved.

It is the work of the sculptor Víctor Ochoa and was inaugurated in 1992 by the Kings of Spain.


Severo Ochoa, (Luarca, Asturias, 1905 – Madrid, 1993), stood out in research on the mechanism of the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In 1954 he discovered an enzyme, polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase), capable of synthesizing RNA in vitro from ribonucleoside diphosphates. This discovery led to the preparation of synthetic polynucleotides with different base compositions, which allowed science to subsequently decipher the genetic code.

He studied in Malaga and, stimulated by the research of Ramón y Cajal, he moved to Madrid to study medicine at the Complutense University. He lived in the Student Residence, where he was a companion of great intellectuals and artists, such as García Lorca or Salvador Dalí. He was awarded several scholarships to further his studies at the Universities of Glasgow, Berlin, London and Heidelberg. Already in 1931 he was appointed assistant professor of Physiology and Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of Madrid.

With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he went to the Meyerhof Laboratory in Heidelberg to continue researching. The Nazi invasion soon arrived and he moved first to Plymouth and then to the University of Oxford. He emigrated to the United States in 1941, this time because of the outbreak of World War II. He began at the University of Washington and, in 1942, went on to work at New York University, where he would remain for much of his life.”

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Field of Accomplishment: Physiology/Medicine

Year of Award: 1959

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