Today is the birthday of Albert von Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt (September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986). Albert was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. It has been over 70 years since his discovery, but his discovery is no less meaningful today.

Notable Publications

  • On Oxidation, Fermentation, Vitamins, Health, and Disease (1940)
    Bioenergetics (1957)
    Introduction to a Submolecular Biology (1960)
    The Crazy Ape (1970)
    Electronic Biology and Cancer: A New Theory of Cancer (1976)
    The living state (1972)
    Bioelectronics: a study in cellular regulations, defense and cancer
    Lost in the Twentieth Century (Gandu) (1963)