Encyclopedia > Albert Szent-Györgyi

  Article Content

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Albert von Szent-Györgyi (September 16, 1893 - 1986) was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.

He was born in Budapest. His father, Nicolaus von Szent-Györgyi, was a landowner. His mother, Josefine, was a daughter of Joseph Lenhossék[?] and a sister of Michael Lenhossék[?]; both of these men were Professors of Anatomy at the University of Budapest[?].

Szent-Györgyi's work involved the chemistry of cell respiration. He used paprika at the University of Szeged[?] as a source of vitamin C (the L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid) and noted its anti-scorbutic activity.

In 1937, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "For his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C & the catalysis of fumaric acid[?]".

External link



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Rameses

... III Ramses IV[?] The name means "Child of the Sun". This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 20.3 ms