Szent-Gyorgyi. Albert

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was surely one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. His research interests included vitamins, enzymatic oxidation mechanisms, muscle contraction, and cancer. He won the 1937 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of vitamin C and for his studies on the Krebs, or citric acid, cycle. 

Szent-Gyorgyi was born in Budapest, Htmgary, on September 16, 1893. His father, Nicholas von Szent-Gyorgyi, was a prominent landowner. His mother, Josefine Lenhossek, belonged to a highly educated family Her father and brother were both professors of anatomy at the University of Budapest. 

In 1930 Szent-Gyorgyi returned to Hungary as a professor of medicinal chemistry. He joined the anti-Nazi resistance movement in Hungary during World War II and was for a while exposed to constant danger. He left Hungary in 1947 to join the staff of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 

Hungarian scientist Aibert von Szent-Gyorgyi, recipient of the 1937 Nobei Prize in physioiogy or medicine, for his discoveries in connection with the bioiogicai combustion processes, with speciai reference to vitamin C and the cataiysis of fumaric acid.  

Wanting to know the chemical structure of ascorbic acid, Szent-Gyorgyi gave a sample to Walter Haworth, a chemistry professor at the University of Birmingham in England and an expert in carbohydrate (sugar) chemistry. Haworth determined the complete chemical structure of ascorbic acid and shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work. 

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Sullivan, H. S. Conceptions of Modem Psychiatry. New York Norton, 1953. Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Introduction to a Submolecular Biology. New York Academic Press, i960. 

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