Luis Federico Leloir
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Luis Federico Leloir

An early photograph of Leloir in his twenties
Personal information
Birth dateSeptember 06, 1906
Birth placeParis, France
Death dateDecember 2, 1987(age 81)
Death placeBuenos Aires, Argentina
ResidenceBuenos Aires, Argentina
CitizenshipArgentina
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Buenos Aires
Washington University in St. Louis (1943-1944)
Columbia University (1944-1945)
Fundación Instituto Campomar (1947-1981)
University of Cambridge (1936-1943)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
Known forGalactosemia
Lactose intolerance
Carbohydrate metabolism
Notable awardsLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1967),
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1970),
French Legion of Honor (1982)

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Luis Federico Leloir (September 6, 1906 - December 2, 1987) was an Argentine doctor and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the first Spanish-speaking scientist to ever receive the award. Although born in France, Leloir received the majority of his education at the University of Buenos Aires and was director of the private research group Fundación Instituto Campomar until his death in 1987. Although his laboratories were often plagued by lack of financial support and second-rate equipment, his research into sugar nucleotides, carbohydrate metabolism, and renal hypertension has garnered international attention and fame and has led to significant progress in understanding, diagnosing and treating the congenital disease galactosemia. He is also credited with inventing salsa golf.

Luis Leloir is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.

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Later years : Legacy
Year Distinction
1943 Third National Science Award
1958 T. Ducett Jones Memorial Award
1965 Bunge and Born Foundation Award
1966 Gairdner Foundation Award
1967 Columbia University's Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
1968 Benito Juárez Award
1968 Honorary Doctorate from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
1968 Argentina Chemistry Association's José Jolly Kyle Award
1969 Honorary member of the English Biochemical Society
1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1971 Legion de Honor “Orden de Andrés Bello”
1976 Bernardo O'Higgins en el Grado de Gran Cruz
1982 French Legion of Honor

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) * Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) * Hermann Staudinger (1953) * Linus Pauling (1954) * Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) * Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) * Alexander Todd (1957) * Frederick Sanger (1958) * Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) * Willard Libby (1960) * Melvin Calvin (1961) * Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) * Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) * Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) * Robert Woodward (1965) * Robert S. Mulliken (1966) * Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter (1967) * Lars Onsager (1968) * Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) * Luis Federico Leloir (1970) * Gerhard Herzberg (1971) * Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) * E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) * Paul Flory (1974) * John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)



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