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Coedition with the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales

The exhibition Ochoa y la ciencia en España paid tribute to Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, (1959) for his work on the synthesis of RNA, on the centenary of his birth. This catalog contains a series of essays that help to understand Ochoa’s close ties with Spain, and the vast scientific legacy he left in this country. Three generations of researchers worked with him. He was instrumental in the establishment and development of the Centro de Biología Molecular (CBMSO), named after him. There is an introductory, chronological essay by María Jesús Santesmases, who also writes a biographical essay on Ochoa’s early research, his travelling in Europe, his fruitful stay in the United States and his final return to Spain in 1986, where he was professor and mentor to students and colleagues.

Emilio Muñoz highlights Ochoa’s personality, his scientific career and his decisive influence on the relationship between politics and science in Spain. Joseph Lluís Barona deals with Ochoa’s studies at the Laboratorio de Fisiología General, headed by Juan Negrín in the Residencia de Estudiantes.

Ochoa’s disciple, César Nombela examines his teacher’s major contributions in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Santiago Grisolía, Antonio Sillero and María Antonia Günther tell their recollections of their significant research work with Ochoa in the United States.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza and Julio Villanueva narrate Ochoa’s contribution to the establishment of the Sociedad Española de Bioquímica.

Margarita Sales, whose research under Ochoa was seminal for the reading of the genetic code and the protein synthesis, writes about her experiences at the CBMSO. César de Haro recalls his personal and professional relationship with Ochoa at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, N.J, and at the CBMSO.

Carlos López Otín deals with Ochoa‘s significance among the pioneers of Molecular Biology, his impact on biological research and his scientific legacy.

The catalog ends with the facsimile of the text read by Francisco Díaz Vega in the homage to Severo Ochoa, at the Instituto Internacional de Madrid, in 1960.

PAPERBACK. 21 × 24 cm, 222 pp.
81 ILLUSTRATIONS
ISBN: 978-84-95078-41-4