Albert Szent-Györgyi - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1937
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Albert Szent-Györgyi

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1937
for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid
Citizenship
United States United States Hungary Hungary
Languages
Latin, English, Hungarian, German
date of birth
9/16/1893
place of birth
Budapest
date of death
10/22/1986
place of death
Woods Hole
Lived
93 years
educated at
  • Eötvös Loránd University
    • academic major: medicine
    • start time: 1911
    • end time: 1917
  • Fitzwilliam College
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1927
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/1/1951
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 6/12/1947
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
position held
  • member of the National Assembly of Hungary
    • start time: 11/4/1945
    • end time: 8/31/1947
  • member of the Provisional National Assembly
    • end time: 11/3/1945
    • start time: 4/2/1945
  • member of the Hungarian upper chamber
    • end time: 1943
    • start time: 1939
employer
  • University of Szeged
    • end time: 1945
    • start time: 1931
  • Fitzwilliam College
    • end time: 1930
    • start time: 1926
  • University of Groningen
    • start time: 1925
    • end time: 1926
  • University of Groningen
    • end time: 1926
    • start time: 1922
  • Leiden University
    • end time: 1922
    • start time: 1920
occupation
  • physician
  • physiologist
  • biochemist
  • peace activist
  • politician
  • chemist
  • university teacher
field of work
  • biochemistry
  • physiology
work location
  • Budapest
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