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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986)

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi  (1893-1986) Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrápolt (Hungarian: Nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert) was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and entered Hungarian politics after the war.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.