Severo Ochoa biography

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Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-born U.S. scientist. After studying at the University of Madrid, he spent two years studying muscles. He later immigrated to the U.S. and worked in pharmacology. In 1959, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering an enzyme that enables the synthesis of RNA, enabling scientists to recreate the cell process which translates hereditary genes.