l.f. leloir

Le·loir

[luh-lwahr; Spanish le-lwahr]
noun
Luis Fe·de·ri·co [lwees fe-the-ree-kaw] , 1906–1987, Argentine biochemist, born in France: Nobel prize for chemistry 1970.
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Leloir Le·loir (lə-lwär', lě-), Luis Federico. Born 1906.

French-born Argentine biochemist. He won a 1970 Nobel Prize for the discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates.

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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