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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

Leloir and Vidal shorten the name to acne cornee.

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

No more sympathetic illustrator than Leloir could be found, and his treatment of this masterpiece of French literature invests it with a peculiar value.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth

The Paris of his Dumas and Leloir no longer existed.

From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath

Fichel, Lesrel, Louis Leloir and others whom I have not space to mention, as exact and as minute in detail as their chef, and, moreover, almost as well paid by amateurs, especially Americans.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

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