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Albert Szent-Györgyi

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986) · United States · Scientists · Lived 1893 to 1986 · aged 93

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He pinned down vitamin C when scurvy was still killing sailors, then mapped the citric acid cycle - the chemical loop that turns food into the energy keeping every cell alive.

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A life in dates

1986Died22 October 19861985“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”In their wordsAttributed to Szent-Györgyi in: IEEE (1985) Bridging the present and the future: IEEE Professional Communication Society conference record,

1980“I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion.”In their wordsIn a television interview, ca. 1980.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi discusses religion, National Library of Medicine.

1973Honorary Doctor of Caen UniversityAward1970“It is probably this dual code of morals which underlies the break in...”In their wordsThe Crazy Ape (1970)

“From on high a human life must look very small, a notion that moved Walt Whitman to sing about the arrogance and audacity of elected government officials.”In their wordsThe Crazy Ape (1970)

“Between the two world wars, at the heydey of Colonialism, force reigned supreme. ...It was natural for the weaker to lie down before the stronger.”In their wordsThe Crazy Ape (1970)

1961Honorary Doctor of the University of BordeauxAward1957“Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought.”In their wordsAlbert Szent-Györgyi (1957), Academic Press. Bioenergetics Part II: Biological structures and functions, p. 57

1954Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAward1946Cameron Prize of the University of EdinburghAward1939August Wilhelm von Hofmann MedalAward1938Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of ParisAward1937Corvin WreathAwardNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1893Born16 September 1893

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  1. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

    1985, Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in: IEEE (1985) Bridging the present and the future: IEEE Professional Communication Society conference record,, Own words

  2. I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion.

    1980, In a television interview, ca. 1980.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi discusses religion, National Library of Medicine., Own words

  3. If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead.

    1978, Attributed to Szent-Györgyi by :w:Gerald Holton (1978); cited in: Robert Cohen (1985) The Development of spatial cognition. p. 363., Own words

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Awards

Honorary Doctor of Caen University1973
Honorary Doctor of the University of Bordeaux1961
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1954
Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh1946
August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal1939
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris1938
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1937
Corvin Wreath1937
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was born in Hungary on September 16, 1893. His work in biochemistry led him to isolate vitamin C for the first time, a breakthrough that explained a disease that had puzzled medicine for centuries. He went on to discover many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle, the fundamental process by which cells generate energy. He also uncovered the molecular basis of muscle contraction. In 1937 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died on October 22, 1986.

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Category
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Type
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1893 to 1986 · aged 93

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