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Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Albert Szent-Györgyi

1893 – 1986 · aged 93

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

Born
16 Sept 1893 · Budapest
Died
22 Oct 1986 · Woods Hole
Part ofHungary975 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 16 Sept 1893BornBorn in Budapest
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1937AwardCorvin Wreath
  4. 1937AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  5. 1938AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  6. 1939AwardAugust Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal
  7. 1939 – 1943RoleMember of the Hungarian upper chamber
  8. 1945RoleMember of the Provisional National Assembly
  9. 1945 – 1947RoleMember of the National Assembly of Hungary
  10. 1946AwardCameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh
  11. 1954AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  12. 1961AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
  13. 1973AwardHonorary doctor of Caen University
  14. 22 Oct 1986DiedDied in Woods Hole

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1893 – 1986).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1939 – 1945World War II
  19. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  20. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  21. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  22. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  23. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  24. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  25. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  26. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  28. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  29. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  31. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  32. 1956Suez Crisis
  33. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  35. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  37. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  39. 1968Prague Spring
  40. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing

Biography

Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt (Hungarian: nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction.

Text from the Wikipedia article Albert Szent-Györgyi, CC BY-SA 4.0

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