Albert Szent-Györgyi
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1893 – 1986
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Who was Albert Szent-Györgyi?
Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and entered Hungarian politics after the war.
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- Born
- Sep 16, 1893
Budapest - Also known as
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
- Parents
- Spouses
- Cornelia Demény
(1917 - 1941) - Marta Borbiro Miskolczy
(1941 - 1963) - June Susan Wichterman
(1965 - 1968) - Marcia Houston
(1975 - 1986/10/22)
- Cornelia Demény
- Children
- Nationality
- Hungary
- United States of America
- Austria-Hungary
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Semmelweis University
- Died
- Oct 22, 1986
Woods Hole
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on July 23, 2013
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