Albert Szent-Györgyi:

Albert Szent-Györgyi was an Austrian biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Birth:

September 16, 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary

Death:

October 22, 1986 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Claim to Fame:

Szent-Györgyi an Austrian biochemist who was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the roles of organic compounds and the oxidation of nutrients by cells, with special attention to vitamin C.

He discovered and isolated a reducing acid from plant juices and adrenal gland extracts. He called this agent hexuronic acid but further study determined it to be ascorbic acid discovered earlier by Axel Holst and Alfred Fröhlich. He also identified the steps in the citric acid cycle.