: He isolated a substance from adrenal glands and citrus plants he called "hexuronic acid," which was later proven to be vitamin C (ascorbic acid). He notably used Hungarian red peppers (paprika) as a source to mass-produce the vitamin for research.
: Later in his career at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, he focused on "bioelectronics" and the role of free radicals in cancer. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Vitamin C - Landmark albert von szent-gyorgyi
Albert von Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) was a pioneering Hungarian biochemist most famous for and discovering the foundational components of the citric acid cycle . For his "discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes," he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. Scientific Achievements : He isolated a substance from adrenal glands
: He and his team discovered actomyosin , the complex formed by the proteins actin and myosin, and demonstrated that it contracts when combined with ATP, revealing the basic mechanism of muscle movement. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Vitamin C - Landmark Albert von