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Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction.
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science · Hungarian biochemist (1893–1986), Nobel Prize winner · biochemist · chemist · politician · physician · university teacher · peace activist · physiologist · also Albert Szent-Györgyi, Albert Imre Szentgyörgyi, Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt, Albert von Szent-Györgyi, Szent-Györgyi
Born 16 September 1893 · Died 22 October 1986 · Q180468
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2026· 2 entries
as.com: Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel laureate: “Every morning, without fail, I get up before dawn and run 3 kilometers, regardless of my mood or the weather”
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2011· 5 entries
CBS News: Google's orange homage to Albert Szent-Györgyi. Who?
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Gothamist: Google Doodle Salutes Biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi, Who Studied Vitamin C
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PC Magazine: Google Doodle Honors Albert Szent-Györgyi, Father of Vitamin C
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The Mirror: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Google doodle celebrates scientist on 118th birthday
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International Business Times: Google Goes for a Vitamin C-Rich Doodle on the 118th Birthday of Albert Szent-Györgyi
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2007· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: 2nd annual Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research awarded to Webster K. Cavenee
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2005· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research to Harvard's Harold F. Dvorak, M.D.
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2004· 1 entry
Nine interviews were conducted with family, colleagues, and others to create a Szent-Györgyi oral history collection
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2002· 1 entry
C&EN: Albert Szent-Györgyi's Discovery of Vitamin C
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1986· 3 entries
Died 1986-10-22.
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“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. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.”
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“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
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1978· 1 entry
“Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought.”
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1974· 1 entry
Reflecting his interests in quantum physics, he proposed the term "syntropy" to replace "negentropy"
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Caen University (1973).
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1967· 1 entry
Szent-Györgyi signed a letter declaring his intention to refuse to pay taxes as a means of protesting against the US war against Vietnam, and urging other people to take a similar stand
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1961).
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1955· 1 entry
Became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1954).
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1950· 1 entry
Grants from the Armour Meat Company and the American Heart Association allowed him to establish the Institute for Muscle Research at Woods Hole
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1948· 1 entry
Received a research position with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland and began dividing his time between there and Woods Hole
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1947· 1 entry
Szent-Györgyi established the Institute for Muscle Research at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts with financial support from Hungarian businessman Stephen Rath
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1946· 2 entries
Awarded Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh (1946).
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Albert received the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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1945· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Provisional National Assembly (1945–1945).
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1945–1947).
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1944· 1 entry
Under the guise of a scientific lecture to begin secret negotiations with the Allies
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1941· 1 entry
Szent-Györgyi developed a research interest in cancer and developed ideas on applying the theories of quantum mechanics to the biochemistry (quantum biology) of cancer
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1939· 2 entries
Won August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal (1939).
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Career landmark: member of the Hungarian upper chamber (1939–1943).
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1938· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1938).
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Began work on the biophysics of muscle movement
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1937· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1937).
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Awarded Corvin Wreath (1937).
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Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"
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1929· 1 entry
Where he was a student at Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge
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1927· 1 entry
Studied at Fitzwilliam College, Doctor of Philosophy (1927).
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1918· 1 entry
Their daughter, Cornelia Szent-Györgyi, was born in 1918 and died in 1969.
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1917· 2 entries
Studied at Eötvös Loránd University (1911–1917).
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Studied at Semmelweis University (1911–1917).
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1916· 1 entry
Disgusted with the war, Szent-Györgyi shot himself in the arm, claimed to be wounded from enemy fire, and was sent home on medical leave
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1914· 1 entry
To serve as an army medic in World War I
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1911· 1 entry
And then began research in his uncle's anatomy lab
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-09-16.
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