� He worked as a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Madrid but he moved abroad to
continue researching because of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Where did he go? It is
the country with coordinates…..
� World War II made him emigrate again, first to a country with coordinates…………………
where he continued researching. Finally he moved to a city in the USA with
coordinates………………… (New York) where he discovered the enzyme related to the
synthesis of RNA which made him win the Nobel Prize.
� Where are the Nobel Prize awarded? In a city with coordinates……………..(Stockholm)
2) Severo Ochoa got another citizenship in 1956. What was that country? Coordinates……..
3) Severo Ochoa was born in 1905 and he died in 1993. Taking into account that he migrated
from Spain in 1936 and he did not come back to stay for good until 1975. What percentage of
his life did he live abroad?
4) Severo Ochoa was born in Luarca in 1905 and he moved to Málaga with his mother due to
his father´s death . They moved when he was 7 years old and he finished his Degree in
Medicine 17 years later. When did he finish his Degree?
5) He married Carmen García Covián 4 years before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. 23
years after their marriage he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in the area of Fisiology and
Medicine. What year was he awarded with the Nobel Prize?
6) He spent his last 18 years in Spain. He passed away in Madrid when he was 88. When did he
come back to Spain from the USA if he was born in 1905?
7) Write down the biography of Severo Ochoa with all the information you have.
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