A. Szent-gyorgyi
by National Library Of Medicine/science Photo Library
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A. Szent-gyorgyi
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National Library Of Medicine/science Photo Library
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986), Hungarian biochemist, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. Szent-Gyorgyi was born in Budapest, Hungary. His major work was on ascorbic acid (vitamin C), a compound he had isolated at Cambridge in 1928. For this he won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1937. By 1935 he was studying the biochemistry of muscle. In 1947, he emigrated to the USA where he worked on the thymus gland and cancer. This autographed portrait was taken in 1957.
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February 15th, 2021
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