Albert von Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt. In doodle Google today is the 118 th birthday. Born September 16, 1893, in Budapest, Hungary. He was a physiologist, who win Nobel Prize in Physiologist and Medicine in 1937. He discovered vitamin C and also the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. And he was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and entered Hungarian politics after the war.
In 1947 he migrated to United States, and he became naturalized citizen of United States in 1955.
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