Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir

After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.

Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir

We managed to prepare a cell-free system which was active when suitably supplemented, and this was a novel result since the process of oxidation was believed to require the integrity of the cells.

Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.

Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir

The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides.