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Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1970 for discovering sugar nucleotides and their role in the way the body builds and stores carbohydrates. He did most of his work at a small private institute in Buenos Aires, and his prize was the third Nobel won by an Argentine.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Luis Federico Leloir. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/luis-federico-leloir
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