Alberto Sols
Sols in 1987
Born
Alberto Sols García

(1917-02-02)2 February 1917
Sax, Alicante, Spain
Died10 August 1989(1989-08-10) (aged 72)
Dénia, Alicante, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Known forInvestigation of hexokinases; carbohydrate metabolism
AwardsMember of Real Academia Nacional de Medicina

Placa de la Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio
Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio

Premio Princesa de Asturias de Investigación Científica y Técnica
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsWashington University School of Medicine
Spanish National Research Council

Alberto Sols García (1917–1989) was a 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]

Career

Sols studied medicine at the University of Valencia, and after working for three years, principally with Robert Crane[2] 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). His work concerned hexokinases[3] and sugar phosphorylation in general.[4]

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 premio Príncipe de Asturias de Investigación Científica y Técnica (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.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Centro de Estudios y Archivo Histórico Municipal Alberto Sols (CEAHM)". Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  2. ↑ Sols, Alberto; Crane, Robert (1954). "Substrate specificity of brain hexokinase". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 210 (2): 581–594. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)65384-0. PMID 13211595.
  3. ↑ 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. PMID 5471811.
  4. ↑ Aragon, J. J.; Feliu, J. E.; Frenkel, R. A.; Sols, A. (1980). "Permeabilization of animal cells for kinetic studies of intracellular enzymes: In situ behavior of the glycolytic enzymes of erythrocytes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 77 (11): 6324–6328. Bibcode:1980PNAS...77.6324A. doi:10.1073/pnas.77.11.6324. PMC 350276. PMID 6450416.
  5. ↑ Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular: https://www.sebbm.es/web/es/
  6. ↑ Galardonados con los Premios Princesa de Asturias: Listado completo de Premiados https://www.fpa.es/es/cargarAplicacionPremiadoCompleto.do
  7. ↑ Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Premios Nacionales de Investigación: https://www.ciencia.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.7eeac5cd345b4f34f09dfd1001432ea0/?vgnextoid=82957edcc0186610VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD
  8. ↑ Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España, Académicos Anteriores (Letra S): https://www.ranm.es/historia/historia-de-los-sillones/academicos-anteriores/565-letra-s.html
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