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Albert Szent-Györgyi

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

  • Fame60.4
  • Momentum0.0
  • Global rank#184
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  • Fame60.4
  • Momentum0.0
  • Global rank#184
  • Scientists rank#90
  • Wikipedia4.6K
Lived 1893–1986, aged 93
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  • Era
    1893–1986
    Aged 93
  • Awards
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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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Last updated
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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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Albert Szent-Györgyi
said · 1985
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
— Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in: IEEE (1985) Bridging the present and the future: IEEE Professional Communication Society conference record,
Albert Szent-Györgyi
said · 1980
I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion.
— In a television interview, ca. 1980.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi discusses religion, National Library of Medicine.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
said · 1978
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.
— Attributed to Szent-Györgyi by :w:Gerald Holton (1978); cited in: Robert Cohen (1985) The Development of spatial cognition. p. 363.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
said · 1970
It is probably this dual code of morals which underlies the break in...
— The Crazy Ape (1970)
Albert Szent-Györgyi
said · 1970
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.
— The Crazy Ape (1970)
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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