Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)
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.
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.
Sourced, dated quotes from Albert Szent-Györgyi
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion.
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.
It is probably this dual code of morals which underlies the break in...
Collective human suffering easily becomes an abstraction... being unable to multiply death or suffering by 100,000. This... is a number, an abstraction. One death is a tragedy.
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