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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.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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