Google logo dedicated to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Google logo dedicated to Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyrapolt, discoverer of vitamin c. Today marks the anniversary of his birth, 118.


Google logo dedicated to Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyrapolt, discoverer of vitamin c. reminds with a Google Doodle adorned with oranges in the foreground, but also strawberries, citrus and paprika. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyrapolt, Hungarian, received for this scientific discovery, the Nobel Prize for medicine and Physiology in 1937. Today we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of 118 scientist with his discoveries came to eradicate a serious illness, at the time, such as scurvy.


Research of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyrapolt, were devoted entirely to the chemistry of cellular respiration. To identify learning to anti was amazingly kind of vitamin C scientist used the paprika. This is because of his presence in the Google logo. But who was exactly this brilliant scientist? Albert Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyrapolt, was born in Budapest in 1893, as you may have understood the 16 September. A young scholar who loved science. He enrolled in 1911 allUniversit of Budapest, but after little bursts of the first world war.




After the war, which saw him armed on the Italian front, Albert laure in Budapest. After working in Hungary and Great Britain, at the end of the second world war he obtained the Chair of chemistry at lUniversit in Budapest. After 10 years of work in the United States relocated and remained there until the end of his days. Among the many research Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyrapolt, has the merit of having isolated Ascorbic acid by the adrenal glands, but also to have described the activities of nucleotides. Also the luminary has also discovered in 1938 two proteins, actin and myosin. In addition to the Nobel Prize, has also received other major awards. The Medal of Valor for participation in the first world war, the Cameron at Edinburgh and Lasker Award.