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Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi , 1893-1986, American biochemist, b. Hungary, M.D. Univ. of Budapest, 1917; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1927. After teaching at the universities of Szeged and Budapest, he came to the United States in 1947 and assumed the post of director of research at the Institute of Muscle Research, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, Mass. He was naturalized in 1955. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of biological oxidations and for discovering ascorbic acid in adrenal glands. His later researches were chiefly on muscle chemistry. His writings... Read more
Nobel Prizes
...van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E. A. von Behring R. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme...José Echegaray 1905 Baroness Bertha von Suttner Adolf von Baeyer Philipp Lenard Robert Koch...Rabindranath Tagore 1914 T. W. Richards Max von Laue Robert Barany 1915 Richard Willstätter...Bragg Romain Rolland 1916 Verner ... Read more

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; "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, biochemist Read more
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; ...who isolated thiamine, was the first to identify and isolate pantothenic acid, and gave folic acid its name); Albert Szent-Gyorgyi von Nagyrapolt (1893-1986, who discovered vitamin C); and Linus Pauling (1901-1994, who discovered the nature of... Read more
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; ...spark rather than kill creativity. As Albert Einstein said, in much of life, imagination...releasing creativity with a book by Roger von Oech called A Whack on the Side of the...holistic thinking. The Noble Prize winner, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, points out that discovery consists of... Read more
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; ...worse than aggressive stupidity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. "Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV...everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert Szent- Gyorgyi. "Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example... Read more
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; ...this. SOURCE: Harris Interactive Idle thought: "A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi 8.3 million: Number of households in the U.S. with a net worth (not including the primary residence) of $1 million... Read more
the creative side of supervision.
; ...Do That's Different Discovery consists of seeing what everybody sees and thinking what nobody has thought. -- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi We all know supervisors and managers who are consistently a step ahead of the rest of the pack in solving problems... Read more

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