Severo Ochoa
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| Born | Severo Ochoa de Albornoz 24 September 1905 |
| Died | 1 November 1993 (aged 88) Madrid, Spain |
| Citizenship | Spanish (1905–1956), American (1956–1993) |
| Education | University of Madrid Medical School, University of Glasgow |
| Known for | Discovery of mechanisms in the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA |
| Spouse | Carmen Garcia Cobian |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry, molecular biology |
| Institutions | Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Berlin; National Institute for Medical Research, London; New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Washington University School of Medicine |
| Academic advisors | Pedro Arrupe, Juan Negrín, Otto Meyerhof, Henry Hallett Dale |
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)".