Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Albert Szent-Györgyi
Szent-Györgyi around 1948
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a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in medicine (1937)
"for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"
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Born
September 16, 1893 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
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Died
October 22, 1986 (aged 93) Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Known for
vitamin C, discovering the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle
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Fields
Physiology, biochemistry
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Alma mater
Semmelweis University (MD) University of Cambridge (PhD)
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Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1937) Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1946) Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1954) Member of the National Academy of
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Institutions
University of Szeged University of Cambridge
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Spouse(s)
Kornélia Demény (1917–1938) Márta Borbíró (1941–1963) June Susan Wichterman (1965–1968) Marcia Houston (1975–1986)
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Hungary
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Citizenship
Hungarian; American
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Doctoral advisor
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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era
1800+
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Influences
Hartog Jacob Hamburger
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Thesis
Observations on the functions of peroxidase systems and the chemistry of the adrenal cortex (1929)