Alberto Sols
Birth : Alberto Sols García (1917-02-02)2 February 1917 Sax,Alicante,Spain
Death : 10 August 1989(1989-08-10)(aged 72) Dénia,Alicante,Spain
Personal Information
| Name | Alberto Sols |
|---|---|
| Birth | (1917-02-02)2 February 1917 Sax,Alicante,Spain |
| Birth Place | Sax,Alicante,Spain |
| Death | (1989-08-10)(aged 72) Dénia,Alicante,Spain |
| Died At | Dénia,Alicante,Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institution | Washington University School of Medicine,
Spanish National Research Council) |
| Famous Research | Investigation of hexokinases; carbohydrate metabolism |
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Life Alberto Sols was born in Sax, Alicante, on 2 February 1917, the son of Pedro Sols Lluch.
He died in Denia, Alicante, on 10 August 1989.
Career Sols studied medicine at the University of Valencia, and after working for three years, principally with Robert Crane at Washington University in St. Louis, in the group of Nobel prizewinners Carl and Gerty Cori he returned to Spain in 1954, and created a research group at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Sols received numerous prizes, and was the first holder of the premio Príncipe de Asturias de Investigación Científica y Técnica (1981).
In 1987 he received the National Research Prize "Santiago Ramón y Cajal" of the Ministry of Education.
In 1989 he was elected to the Royal National Academy of Medicine.
