Szent-Györgyi

[ sent-jur-jee; Hungarian sent-dyœr-dyi ]

noun

1. Al·bert [al, -bert, ol, -be, r, t], 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1937.

Szent-Györgyi

/ sɛntˈdʒɜːdʒɪ /

noun

1. Szent-GyörgyiAlbert (von Nagyrapolt)18931986MUSHungarianSCIENCE: chemist 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

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