Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Luis Federico Leloir

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French scientist Luis Federico Leloir.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Luis Federico Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways in lactose. Although born in France, Leloir received the majority of his education at the University of Buenos Aires and was director of the private research group Fundación Instituto Campomar until his death in 1987. His research into sugar nucleotides, carbohydrate metabolism, and renal hypertension garnered international attention and led to significant progress in understanding, diagnosing and treating the congenital disease galactosemia. Luis Leloir is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.
We managed to prepare a cell-free system which was active when suitably supplemented, and this was a novel result since the process of oxidation was believed to require the integrity of the cells.
The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides. — © Luis Federico Leloir
The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides.
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.
I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.
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