born Sept. 16, 1893, Budapest, Hung., Austria-Hungary
died Oct. 22, 1986, Woods Hole, Mass., U.S.
Hungarian-born U.S. biochemist.
His discoveries about the roles played by certain organic compounds, especially vitamin C , in the oxidation (see oxidation-reduction ) of nutrients by cells brought him a 1937 Nobel Prize. He found and isolated an organic reducing agent from plant juices and adrenal gland extracts and showed it was identical to vitamin C. His work on intermediates in the cell laid the foundation for the elucidation of the tricarboxylic acid cycle by Hans Adolf Krebs . In later years he worked on the biochemistry of muscular action (demonstrating the role of ATP ) and of cell division.
Szent-Györgyi
Boyer
H. Roger-Viollet