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Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 1959 Nobel Prize in…
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Hello, my name is Severo Ochoa. I was born a long, long time ago, in a sunny place called Spain. When I was a little boy, my head was always full of questions. I was very curious! I loved to wonder about how everything in the world works. I would look up at the biggest stars in the sky and then look down at the tiniest bugs on the ground and ask, “How do you work?”.
When I grew up, I became a scientist so I could find answers to my questions. I used special tools to look at the teeny-tiny building blocks that make up our bodies. They are so small you can't see them with just your eyes. In the year 1959, I made a super tiny discovery. I found a very important messenger inside of us. I called this messenger RNA. You can think of it like a secret note that tells our bodies how to grow and be strong and healthy. It was a very important secret note to find.
Finding this special secret note was so exciting. I shared my discovery with the whole world so other scientists could learn from it. Because of my discovery, I won a very special prize. It helped so many people understand our bodies better. I lived to be 88 years old, and my life was full of wonderful questions. I hope you remember that being curious and asking questions can lead to big discoveries that help everyone.
Severo Ochoa: The Boy with Big Questions
Hello, my name is Severo Ochoa. I was born a long, long time ago, in a sunny place called Spain. When I was a little boy, my head was always full of questions. I was very curious! I loved to wonder about how everything in the world works. I would look up at the biggest stars in the sky and then look down at the tiniest bugs on the ground and ask, “How do you work?”.
When I grew up, I became a scientist so I could find answers to my questions. I used special tools to look at the teeny-tiny building blocks that make up our bodies. They are so small you can't see them with just your eyes. In the year 1959, I made a super tiny discovery. I found a very important messenger inside of us. I called this messenger RNA. You can think of it like a secret note that tells our bodies how to grow and be strong and healthy. It was a very important secret note to find.
Finding this special secret note was so exciting. I shared my discovery with the whole world so other scientists could learn from it. Because of my discovery, I won a very special prize. It helped so many people understand our bodies better. I lived to be 88 years old, and my life was full of wonderful questions. I hope you remember that being curious and asking questions can lead to big discoveries that help everyone.
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Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the ways living things make RNA and DNA, including the enzyme polynucleotide phosphorylase, which can make RNA in a lab.
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