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  Luis Federico Leloir - Definition, explanation
Early in the 1940s, Leloir was approached by Bernardo A. Houssay, of the institution that later became the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de la Fundación Campomar, which Leloir directed for 40 years starting from its foundation in 1947.
Leloir was promptly given the Premio de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, one of few to receive such a prize in a country in which he was a foreigner.
Luis Federico Leloir died in Buenos Aires in 1987 and was interred there in La Recoleta Cemetery.
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  Luis Federico Leloir -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
At the beginning of 1948, Leloir's team identified the carnucleotide sugars, compounds that play a fundamental part in (The organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life) metabolism of carbon hydrates, a discovery that brought worldwide recognition to the Institute.
Leloir was promptly given the Premio de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, one of few to receive such a prize in a country in which he was a foreigner.
Luis Federico Leloir died in (Capital and largest city of Argentina; located in eastern Argentina near Uruguay; Argentina's chief port and industrial and cultural center) Buenos Aires in 1987 and was interred there in (additional info and facts about La Recoleta Cemetery) La Recoleta Cemetery.
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 Luis Federico Leloir Summary
Luis Federico Leloir was born on September 6, 1906, in Paris, France.
Leloir's parents, Federico and Hortensia Aguirre Leloir, were in France only for a visit when Leloir was born, and returned to their home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when he was two years old.
Leloir died in Buenos Aires in 1987 and was interred in La Recoleta Cemetery.
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 LELOIR, Luis Federico
Carl F. Cori’s laboratory at Washington University in Saint Louis, Mo., and at Columbia University.
Leloir"s research, started under the direction of the Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay (1887–1971), founder of the Institute of Physiology and a corecipient with Cori of the 1947
In 1970 Leloir was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for “his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates.”
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 Leloir, Luis
Luis Leloir was born in Paris in 1906.
Leloir received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1970; his was the first Nobel Prize in chemistry ever awarded to an Argentine.
Leloir is best remembered for producing Nobel Prize–quality research under very difficult conditions and for contributing significantly to the development of scientific analysis and discovery in Argentina.
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 Luis Federico Leloir / Physiologist - Economy-point.org
Luis Federico Leloir (* 6 September 1906 in Paris; "† 3 December 1987 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine biochemist, who received 1970 the Nobelpreis for chemistry for its discovery of the sugar nucleotides and their meaning for the synthesis from coal hydrates.
Luis Federico Leloir was born 1906 in Paris in France, was thus native Frenchman.
Luis Federico Leloir began into the 1950er years with its research over coal hydrates and sugar molecules, whereby he itself on the metabolism of the same concentrated.
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 A cien años del nacimiento de Luis Federico Leloir 88
Pero la vida de Leloir tuvo poco que ver con esos derroches de manteca al techo que hicieron famosa a su clase en la época en la que él nació.
Leloir era el menor de 9 hermanos, pues su padre había tenido otros cuatro niños con su primera mujer.
Y Leloir, por lo tanto, se quedó sin lugar donde investigar.
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 Luis Federico Leloir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Luis Federico Leloir (September 6, 1906 — December 2, 1987) was a biochemist born in Paris but who lived all his life in Argentina.
Early in the 1940s, Leloir was approached by Bernardo A. Houssay, of the institution that later became the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de la Fundación Campomar, which Leloir directed for 40 years starting from its foundation in 1947.
Luis Federico Leloir died in Buenos Aires in 1987 and was interred there in La Recoleta Cemetery.
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 Luis Federico Leloir, cien años después | LANACION.com
Leloir recordaba siempre esa exitosa tarea en equipo.
Junto a nosotros, la hicieron varios familiares de Leloir, entre ellos su esposa, Amelia Zuberbühler, quien durante semanas y sin perder una pizca de su elegancia cargó y acomodó objetos diversos, pintó muebles y colaboró con eficiencia en todas las tareas.
Leloir escuchaba a sus colaboradores con atención, al mismo tiempo que continuaba con sus experimentos.
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 Leloir, Luis F.
Leloir, Luis F. Leloir, Luis F. Luis F. Leloir was born in Paris of Argentine parents on September 6, 1906 and has lived in Buenos Aires since he was two years old.
Luis Leloir was married in 1943 to Amelia Zuberbuhler and has a daughter, Amelia.
Leloir has received the following awards: Argentine Scientific Society, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (United States), Severo Vaccaro Foundation (Argentina), Bunge and Born Foundation (Argentina), Gairdner Foundation (Canada), Louisa Gross Horowitz (United States), Benito Juarez (Mexico); and at present he is President of the Pan-American Association of Biochemical Societies.
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 Luis Federico Leloir Biography - Biography.com
In 1947, Leloir established the Institute for Biochemical Investigations.
Leloir received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and study of sugar nucleotides.
Leloir continued his scientific research for the rest of his life, receiving numerous awards and honors for his work.
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 Luis F. Leloir Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Luis F. Leloir Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Luis Leloir — Banquet Speech (submitted by Thomas)
Luis F. Leloir Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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Houssay recommended Luis F. Leloir, one of his former Ph.D. students, to be appointed Director of a new Biochemistry Institute.
On November 3, 1947, the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas Fundación Campomar began its existence; Luis F. Leloir was its Director and afterwards its President until his death on December 2, 1987.
Jaime Campomar died in 1957 and Luis F. Leloir, who had declined some invitations to move to the United States with his group, was able to change to larger premises.
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 Luis Zapata --  Encyclopædia Britannica
His reputation is based on a small body of finely crafted lyric poetry and on his epic poem The Lusiads, published in 1572.
Alvarez, Luis W. The experimental physicist Luis W. Alvarez won the 1968 Nobel prize for physics for work that included the discovery of resonance particles—subatomic particles that have very short lifetimes and that occur only in high-energy nuclear collisions.
Luis Muñoz Marín went from writer to reformer as he worked for social and economic progress.
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 Francisco E. Baralle, Director-General ICGEB, Group Leader Molecular Pathology
Buratti, E., Brindisi, A., Pagani, F., Baralle, F.E. Nuclear factor TDP-43 binds to the polymorphic TG repeats in CFTR intron 8 and causes skipping of exon 9: a functional link with disease penetrance.
Pagani, F., Buratti, E., Stuani, C., Baralle, F.E. Missense, nonsense and neutral mutations define juxtaposed regulatory elements of splicing in Cystic Fibrosis transmembrane regulator Exon 9.
Pagani, F., Buratti, E., Stuani, C., Benedix, R., Dörk, T., Baralle, F.E. 2002 A new type of genetic mutation causing a splicing processing defect in ATM.
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 Luis Leloir - Biography
Luis F. Leloir was born in Paris of Argentine parents on September 6, 1906 and has lived in Buenos Aires since he was two years old.
Since then he has been Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas, Fundación Campomar.
More recent investigations (with Nicolás Behrens) have dealt with the role of a polyprenol, dolichol, in glucose transfer in animal tissues.
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 Oscar Burrone, Group Leader, ICGEB Molecular Immunology
Campagna, M., Eichwald, C., Vascotto, F., Burrone, O.R. RNA interference of rotavirus segment 11 mRNA reveals the essential role of NSP5 in virus replication.
Cesco-Gaspere, M., Benvenuti F., Burrone, O.R. lymphoma protection induced by idiotype DNA vaccination is entirely dependent on anti-idiotypic antibodies.
Vascotto, F., Campagna, M., Visintin, M., Cattaneo, A., Burrone, O.R. Effect of intrabodies specific for rotavirus NSP5 during the viral replicative cycle.
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 La Recoleta Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995), F1 champion race car driver
Luis Firpo (1894-1960), heavyweight boxer, "The Wild Bull of the Pampas"
Luis F. Leloir (1906-1987), scientist, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
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 Luis F. Leloir Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Luis F. Leloir Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Luis F. Leloir — Biography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
Luis Leloir — Banquet Speech (submitted by Thomas)
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Krisman, C.R., Tolmasky, D.S., Lerner, L.R., Curá, J.A. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas, "Luis F. Leloir", Fundación Campomar; CONICET; UBA.
It is well established as we have postulated and demonstrated for the first time that in the "de novo" biogenesis of glycogen a protein GENESINE (from genesis: origin), the naked autoglucosylating protein is involved in the initial steps.
This paper is specially dedicated to the memory of an excellent scientist and honorable person, Dr. Jerome F. Fredrick.
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 MSN Encarta - Leloir, Luis F.
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 Aerobic fermentation of glucose by trypanosomatids -- Cazzulo 6 (13): 3153 -- The FASEB Journal
Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquimicas Luis F. Leloir, Fundacion Campomar-CONICET-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
L. Riviere, S. van Weelden, P. Glass, P. Vegh, V. Coustou, M. Biran, J. van Hellemond, F. Bringaud, A. Tielens, and M. Boshart
J. Van Hellemond, F. Opperdoes, and A. Tielens
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 A. Carlos Frasch, Ph.D.
From 1990 to 1993 he chaired the TDR/WHO Steering Committee on Chagas' disease, and since 1994 he has co-chaired its Committee on Parasite Genomes.
Frasch received the Luis F. Leloir Award in 1993, the 2000 Award in Biology from the Third World Academy of Sciences, a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2003 Merit Diploma in Cytology and Molecular Biology from the Konex Foundation in Argentina.
He was first awarded an HHMI International Research Scholar grant in 1997.
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 Chemical Engineering: Timeline
Hahn, L. Meitner and F. Strassman, fission induced with neutrons, split the nucleus of the atom.
Luis W. Alvarez (1911-88, American), Study and detection of subatomic particles.
Philip W. Anderson (born 1923) American, Sir Nevill F. Mott (born 1905) British, John H. Van Vleck (1899-1980) American, Contributions to solid-state electronics, including the development of basic theories of magnetism and conduction.
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 Gairdner Foundation International Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1965 Jerome W. Conn, Robin R.A. Coombs, Charles E. Dent, Charles P. Leblond, Daniel J. McCarty, F.
1979 Sir James W. Black, George F. Cahill Jr.
Judah Folkman, Robert F. Furchgott, David H. MacLennan, Kary B. Mullis
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 Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Luis F. Leloir (April 26, 1950)
Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Luis F. Leloir (April 26, 1950)
Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Luis F. Leloir
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 WU Libraries: Washington University's Nobel Prize Winners.
1970: Luis F. Leloir, Faculty of Medicine 1944
1998: Robert F. Furchgott, Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine, 1949-1956.
Another Nobel Prize winner connected with Washington University is T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), winner of the prize for Literature in 1948.
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 All Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
1996 - Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley
1995 - Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
1962 - Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew
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 Best Book Buys - Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Max F. Perutz and John C. Kendrew (U.K.), for mapping protein molecules with X-rays
Carl Ziegler (Germany) and Giulio Natta (Italy), for work in uniting simple hydrocarbons into large molecule substances
Luis F. Leloir (Argentina), for discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in biosynthesis of carbohydrates
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