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Albert Szent-Györgyi

1893 - 1986

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Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt (Hungarian: nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Szent-Györgyi has received more than 483,906 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Albert Szent-Györgyi is the 79th most popular physician (down from 71st in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Physician.

Albert Szent-Györgyi is most famous for discovering vitamin C.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Albert Szent-Györgyi ranks 79 out of 502. Before him are Ronald Ross, Amenmesse, Cyril of Jerusalem, Theodor Morell, Hotepsekhemwy, and Jean Nicot. After him are Shirō Ishii, Louis Auguste Blanqui, William T. G. Morton, August Krogh, François Duvalier, and Johannes Fibiger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Albert Szent-Györgyi ranks 18. Before him are Soong Ching-ling, Lazar Kaganovich, Roland Freisler, Draža Mihailović, Karl Mannheim, and Harold Lloyd. After him are Damdin Sükhbaatar, George Grosz, Paramahansa Yogananda, Andrés Segovia, Palmiro Togliatti, and Edward Adelbert Doisy. Among people deceased in 1986, Albert Szent-Györgyi ranks 20. Before him are Jean Genet, Harold Macmillan, Urho Kekkonen, Cliff Burton, Celâl Bayar, and Henry Moore. After him are Alva Myrdal, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Benny Goodman, Erich Koch, and Edward Adelbert Doisy.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Albert Szent-Györgyi ranks 60 out of 866. Before him are Karl Mannheim (1893), George de Hevesy (1885), Elizabeth of Bosnia (1340), Sándor Petőfi (1823), László Moholy-Nagy (1895), and Béla Guttmann (1899). After him are Andrew I of Hungary (1010), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), Marcel Breuer (1902), Marie Henriette of Austria (1836), Ferenc Molnár (1878), and Arthur Koestler (1905).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Hungary

Among physicians born in Hungary, Albert Szent-Györgyi ranks 2. Before him are Ignaz Semmelweis (1818). After him are Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Thomas Szasz (1920), Moritz Kaposi (1837), Emil Zuckerkandl (1849), Eva Klein (1925), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), Edith Farkas (1921), and Gabriele Possanner (1860).

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