Luis Federico Leloir

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]”