Awards & Winners

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Date of Birth 16-September-1893
Place of Birth Budapest
(Hungary, Central Hungary)
Nationality Hungary, United States of America, Austria-Hungary
Also know as Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Profession Scientist
Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and entered Hungarian politics after the war.

Awards by Albert Szent-Györgyi

Check all the awards nominated and won by Albert Szent-Györgyi.

1954


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For his distinguished research achievements in the field of cardiovascular diseases, including the discovery of actomyosin, the essential contractible element of muscle. )

1937


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)