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Alberto Sols García (1917–1989) was a Spanish researcher specializing in biochemistry, working especially on hexokinases. He effectively created biochemistry as a major discipline in Spain.
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. The house of his birth is now the Centro de Estudios y Archivo Histórico Municipal Alberto Sols.[1]
In 1963 he was Founding President of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry (now Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology—Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular: SEBBM).[5] He was also a member of scientific societies in the UK, USA, Argentina and Chile.
Distinctions
Sols received numerous prizes, and was the first holder of the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in 1981.[6] In 1987 he received the National Research Prize "Santiago Ramón y Cajal" of the Ministry of Education.[7] In 1989 he was elected to the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain [es].[8]
^Delafuente, Gertrudis; Sols, Alberto (1970). "The Kinetics of Yeast Hexokinase in the Light of the Induced Fit Involved in the Binding of its Sugar Substrate". European Journal of Biochemistry. 16 (2): 234–239. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1970.tb01076.x. PMID5471811.