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  • Luis F. Leloir
  • 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.

    It was during the 1920s that Leloir invented salsa golf (golf sauce).
    He finally received his diploma in 1932 and began his residency in the Hospital de Clínicas and his medical internship in Ramos Mejía hospital.
    In 1933, he met Bernardo A. Houssay, who pointed Leloir towards investigating in his doctoral thesis the suprarenal glands and carbohydrate metabolism.
    Following the recommendation of Udaondo, Leloir began working with Houssay, who in 1947 would later win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The two would develop a close relationship, collaborating on various projects until Houssay's death in 1971; in his lecture after winning the Nobel Prize, Leloir claimed that his "whole research career has been influenced by one person, Prof. Bernardo A. Houssay".
    In 1983, Leloir became one of the founding members of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
    Awards and distinctions:
    Leloir(left) with Armando Parodi and his daughter Amelia in the laboratory.
    Leloir with his wife Amelia and cardiac surgeon René Favaloro.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

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