Luis Federico Leloir
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1970for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates
- Citizenship
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Argentina 
France - Languages
- French
- date of birth
- 9/6/1906
- place of birth
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- date of death
- 12/2/1987
- place of death
- Catamarca Province, Buenos Aires
- Lived
- 81 years
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- educated at
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- Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Buenos Aires
- academic major: Medical science
- Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Buenos Aires
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1960
- French Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1978
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 1972
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1963
- Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular
- start time: 1963
- The World Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1983
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Academia Argentina de Letras
- National Academy of Sciences
- employer
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- Leloir Institute
- start time: November 1947
- end time: 12/2/1987
- University of Cambridge
- start time: 1936
- end time: 1937
- University of Buenos Aires
- end time: 12/2/1987
- start time: 1958
- Washington University in St. Louis
- end time: 1944
- start time: 1943
- Columbia University
- end time: 1945
- start time: 1944
- University of Washington
- Leloir Institute
- field of work
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- biochemistry
- occupation
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- physicist
- chemist
- university teacher
- biochemist
- physician