Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
1893 - 1986
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Biography
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C. He is credited with isolating vitamin C and discovering its benefits on human health. Szent-Gyorgyi's research on biological oxidation and muscle contraction significantly contributed to the understanding of cellular respiration.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
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Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.