Today Google Doodles Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 118th Birthday, vitamin C discovery

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The Google homepage logo doodle-now is dedicated to one of many leading scholars of the beneficial properties of vitamin C.

The new Google Doodles Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 118th Birthday logo of google homepage today, September 16, 2011, is dedicated to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi and his most important discovery: the properties of vitamin C against antiscorbutic activities through a sequence of esperimernti performed on paprika. Experiments that gained him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.

Google Doodles Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 118th Birthday

Google Doodles Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 118th Birthday on the homepage of Google seems to be the logo of a company of fruit and greens, with the oranges and peppers in plain sight. However it is the doodle dedicated to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi , the discoverer of vitamin “C”.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (September 16,1893 – October 22,1986)

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi or Szent-Györgyi was born in Budapest on September16, 1893. His first studied at the Semmelweis University in 1911, however his WikiPedia entry revealed that he soon “became bored with classes,” and instead of studying from books and teachers, he started research in his uncle’s anatomy lab. His laboratory activities was interrupted in 1914 because he served as an army medic in first world War.

After the war, apparently, he continued his research professional and surprisingly, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi switched colleges several times over the next few years, until touchdown on the College of Groningen the place he focused on the study of the chemistry of cellular respiration.

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His work on the chemistry of mobile respiration landed him a position as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at Cambridge University. There, he obtained his PhD in 1927 for his work on isolating what he then referred to as “hexuronic acid” from adrenal gland tissue. Hexuronic acid is now often known as the Ascorbic Acid, an organic compound and one form of Vitamin C.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi suspected the Hexuronic acid to be the “antiscorbutic factor,” but could not show it and not using a organic assay. The “ascorbic acid” research was lastly executed by King’s laboratory at the College of Pittsburgh. The laboratory obtained the adrenal hexuronic acid not directly from Albert Szent-Györgyi and proved that it was vitamin C by early 1932.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi migrated to the United States in 1947 the place he married his first wife in 1965, and married his fourth in 1975. He died on October 22, 1986 in Massachusetts at the age of 93.