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Luis Federico Leloir

Argentine biochemist.

Born September 6th, 1906 in 16th arrondissement of Paris.

Died December 2nd, 1987 at 81 years old in Buenos Aires, Catamarca Province (myocardial infarction).

Occupations
biochemist, chemist, physician, physicist, university teacher

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks