Szent-Györgyi

American  

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

noun

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

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Szent-Györgyi British  

/ sɛntˈdʒɜːdʒɪ /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

It can’t multiply, as Albert Szent-Györgyi insightfully observed.

From Scientific American

"We all teach this in our undergraduate courses," Samulski said. "It illustrates what 1937 Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi said: 'Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.' "

From Washington Post

But it wasn’t until 1928 that the Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi discovered the ingredient that cured scurvy: vitamin C.

From New York Times

Szent-Gyorgyi’s experiments were part of a wave of early-20th-century research that pulled back the curtain on vitamins.

From New York Times

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