Luis Federico Leloir
Argentine physician and biochemist
Luis Federico Leloir ForMemRS was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body. Wikipedia
Born: September 6, 1906, Paris, France
Died: December 2, 1987 (age 81 years), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Education: University of Buenos Aires
Parents: Hortensia Aguirre de Leloir and Federico Leloir
Nationality: Argentine and French
Awards: Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1967), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1970), Fellow of the Royal Society (1972), and more
Research interests: Glicobiología and Biología