The Pursuit of a Hobby

117413 Ramonycajal
Discovered 2005 Jan. 8 by J. Lacruz at La Cañada. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), born in Petilla de Aragón, Spain, was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the structure of the nervous system.

117435 Severochoa
Discovered 2005 Jan. 14 by J. Lacruz at La Cañada. Severo Ochoa (1905-1993), born in Luarca, Spain, discovered polynucleotide phosphorylase, an enzyme that enabled the synthesis of ribonucleic acid. His 1955 discovery provided an understanding of how genetic information is translated. For this work he was awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in medicine.

The pursuit of a hobby

The 100 years (1995-2005), litography of the meeting arranged by CSIC. My copy was kindly signed by Arthur Kornberg, he and Severo shared the 1959 Nobel Price , also signed by Tim Hunt and Marshall Nuremberg, Nobel laureates in physiology, and Margarita Salas, member of the Severo's research team in NY