Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970
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Luis F. Leloir
Prize share: 1/1
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970 was awarded to Luis F. Leloir "for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates"
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