Ranwel Caputto

Ranwel Caputto was an Argentine biochemist. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on January 1, 1914, and died on April 19, 1994.

Career He began his research in Córdoba after some time at the University of Cambridge, England. He returned to Argentina and joined the team of Dr. Federico Leloir undertaking important research that was influential in the work for the Nobel Prize with which he was honored. Caputto actually initiated this project by presenting some preliminary results indicating that mammary gland homogenates could produce lactose when incubated with glycogen.

Family Ranwel's father Salvador Caputto (1886-1939) was founder of El Litoral, a popular Argentine newspaper. Ranwel has two living grandchildren (both boys) and one of them, Carlos, currently runs El Litoral.