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Luis Federico Leloir
(6 Sep 1906 - 2 Dec 1987)
Argentinian biochemist.
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Science Quotes by Luis Federico Leloir (2 quotes)
I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.
[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]
[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]
— Luis Federico Leloir
In Banquet Speech, Stokholm (10 Dec 1970). Nobelprize.org website.
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.
[replying when asked about the significance of his Nobel prize-winning achievement.]
[replying when asked about the significance of his Nobel prize-winning achievement.]
— Luis Federico Leloir
As quoted in John H. Exto, Crucible of Science: The Story of the Cori Laboratory (2013), 52.
See also:
- 6 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Leloir's birth.