SEVERO OCHOA - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/02/1959 - HFSID 172388
Price: $220.00
SEVERO OCHOA
The scientist signed this typed letter in reply to a fan who congratulated him on his Nobel
Prize victory
Typed Letter Signed: "S. Ochoa", ¼p, 8½x5½. New York, New York. Dated November 2,
1959. On letterhead of New York University College of Medicine to Mr. Eddie Sousa,
Livermore, California. In Full: "Thank you very much for your letter of October 21 and for your
kind congratulations. Enclosed please find the photograph you requested for your collection."
Photograph not present. The congratulations mentioned in this letter were for Ochoa winning
the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in Spain, biochemist Severo Ochoa
(1905-1993) travelled throughout Europe in the late 1930s after the Spanish Civil War began.
He worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Medical Research Institute in Berlin, Germany, and also
stopped in England before travelling across the Atlantic to the United States. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 alongside Arthur Kromberg for their
work on the synthesis of RNA and DNA. He received the Nobel Prize while employed by
the New York University School of Medicine. Ochoa continued his work on RNA and
protein synthesis for decades afterwards, returning to Spain in 1985 to consult with Spanish
scientists about their research. Lightly creased. Mid-vertical fold, not at signature. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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