Alberto Sols

Alberto Sols García was a researcher specializing in biochemistry, working especially on hexokinases. He effectively created biochemistry as a major discipline in Spain.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sols and the second or maternal family name is García.
Alberto Sols
Sols in Valparaíso, 1978
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
InfluencesCarl and Gerty Cori
InfluencedMargarita Salas

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.

Career

Sols studied medicine at the University of Valencia, and after working for three years, principally with Robert Crane[1] 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 and sugar phosphorylation in general.

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).[2] 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).[3] In 1987 he received the National Research Prize "Santiago Ramón y Cajal" of the Ministry of Education.[4] In 1989 he was elected to the Royal National Academy of Medicine.[5]

References
  1. Sols, Alberto; Crane, Robert (1954). "Substrate specificity of brain hexokinase". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 210 (2): 581–594. PMID 13211595.
  2. Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular: https://www.sebbm.es/web/es/
  3. Galardonados con los Premios Princesa de Asturias: Listado completo de Premiados https://www.fpa.es/es/cargarAplicacionPremiadoCompleto.do
  4. Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Premios Nacionales de Investigación: https://www.ciencia.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.7eeac5cd345b4f34f09dfd1001432ea0/?vgnextoid=82957edcc0186610VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD
  5. 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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