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Leloir

American  
[luh-lwahr, le-lwahr] / ləˈlwɑr, lɛˈlwɑr /

noun

  1. Luis Federico 1906–1987, Argentine biochemist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970.


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Leloir, 64, a Parisian-born Argentine, won the chemistry prize for his pioneer work in unraveling the chemistry of carbohydrates.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bibliomaniac by Charles Nodier with forty-five illustrations from designs by Maurice Leloir, engraved on wood by F. Noel, and a Preface by R. Vallery-Radot.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

A new translation, by Arthur W. Gundry, from the French edition of 1753, with over 200 full-page and other illustrations, by the great French artist, Maurice Leloir and others.

From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus

Maurice Leloir drew men of their age and country no more elegantly for the bravest novel of Dumas.

From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson

Leloir and Vidal shorten the name to acne cornee.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

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