Albert I. Szent-Györgyi

Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian biochemist who discovered the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1937. Szent-Györgyi began his research career at the University of Groningen, where his work focused on the chemistry of cellular respiration. He transitioned to University of Szeged in 1930 and continued his work on cellular respiration, which eventually earned him his nobel prize. In 1947, Szent-Györgyi established the Institute for Muscle Research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts with financial support from Hungarian businessman Stephen Rath. Later in his academic career Szent-Györgyi developed interests in cancer research and quantum mechanics, and continued to contributions to the study of free radicals as potential cause of cancer.