Born: 1893-09-16 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Gender: male
Field: Hungarian biochemist (1893–1986), Nobel Prize winner
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.
Awarded on: 1937-10-28
"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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