Chemist no. 71 of 350 · Biochemistry

Luis Federico Leloir

1906-1987ArgentinaNobel Chemistry 1970

Sugar nucleotides; carbohydrate metabolism

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Luis Leloir and Sugar Nucleotides: How Cells Build Carbohydrates

How Luis Leloir discovered UDP-glucose and the Leloir pathway of galactose metabolism, explaining carbohydrate biosynthesis. Notes for JAM, NET, GATE.

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Biography

Luis Federico Leloir: Argentina's Nobel Laureate in Biochemistry

Biography of Luis Federico Leloir (1906-1987): Paris birth, Buenos Aires medicine, Cambridge and the US, Campomar Institute, Nobel Prize 1970.

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