In 1959, her uncle, Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (who had fled Spain on a Republican passport) while living and working in the United States, was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Arthur Kornberg for deciphering RNA.
En 1959, o seu tío Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (que fuxira de España cun pasaporte republicano), mentres vivía e traballaba nos Estados Unidos, foi galardoado co Premio Nobel de Medicina con Arthur Kornberg, por descifrar o ARN.