Szent-Györgyi

American

[sent-jur-jee, sent-dyœr-dyi] / sɛntˈdʒɜr dʒi, sɛntˈdyœr dyɪ /

noun

Albert 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1937.

Szent-Györgyi British

/ sɛntˈdʒɜːdʒɪ /

noun

Albert ( von Nagyrapolt ). 1893–1986, US biochemist, born in Hungary, who isolated ascorbic acid and identified it as vitamin C. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1937

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Nobel laureate and physician Albert Szent-Györgyi once said, “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought”.

From Scientific American • Oct. 27, 2011

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