Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the discoverer of vitamin C

His doodle today refers to Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi who discovered vitamin C, born September 16, 1893 in Budapest.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi in his youth sailing between studying medicine and anatomy before being called up in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War. He shot himself in the arm in 1916 to escape the carnage of war that revulsion. He completed his medical studies in "medical leave".

Became a teacher at the university, he continued his research in parallel courses. He published several acclaimed works, including cellular respiration. He discovered in 1931 vitamin C by analyzing peppers. An important advance in medicine Albert Szent-Gyorgyi earned the Nobel Prize in 1937.

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