Alberto Sols

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sols and the second or maternal family name is García.

Alberto Sols
Sols in 1987
Born	Alberto Sols García (1917-02-02)2 February 1917 Sax (Alicante), Spain
Died	10 August 1989(1989-08-10) (aged 72) Dénia (Alicante), Spain
Known for	Investigation of hexokinases; carbohydrate metabolism
Awards	Plaque of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	Washington University School of Medicine Spanish National Research Council

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]

Career

Sols studied medicine at the University of Valencia. 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 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]

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. "¿Es fiable la Wikipedia?" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-11.
6. "Premiados - Fundación Princesa de Asturias". www.fpa.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-11.
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. "Letra S - Real Academia Nacional de Medicina". www.ranm.es. Retrieved 2024-10-11.