page_title: Albert Szent-Györgyi
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Szent-Györgyi / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Description: Szent-Gyorgyi spent the last year of World War I as an army physician in northern Italy. This photograph was used in a lecture entitled "Albert Szent-Gyorgyi; Scientist and Humanist" given by Andrew G. Szent-Gyorgyi at Marosvasarhely, Hungary on April 23, 1999. Number of Image Pages: 1 (109,781 Bytes) Date Supplied: 1917 Creator: Unknown Rights: Courtesy of Andrew G. Szent-Gyorgyi. The National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science program has made every effort to secure proper permissions for posting items on the web site. In this instance, however, it has either not been possible to identify or contact the current copyright owner. If you have information regarding the copyright owner, please contact us at profiles@nlm.nih.gov. Exhibit Categories: Biographical Information Searching for a Scientific Home, 1919-1930 Unique Identifier: WGBBBC Document Type: Photographic prints Format: image/jpeg image/tif Physical Condition: Good Metadata Last Modified Date: 2005-05-18
context_page_description: Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt 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 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.
context_section_description: Szent-Györgyi began his studies at the Semmelweis University in 1911, and then began research in his uncle's anatomy lab. His studies were interrupted in 1914 to serve as an army medic in World War I. In 1916, disgusted with the war, Szent-Györgyi shot himself in the arm, claimed to be wounded from enemy fire, and was sent home on medical leave. He was then able to finish his medical education and received his MD in 1917. He married Kornélia Demény, the daughter of the Hungarian Postmaster General, that same year.
  After the war, Szent-Györgyi began his research career in Bratislava. He switched universities several times over the next few years, finally ending up at the University of Groningen, where his work focused on the chemistry of cellular respiration. This work landed him a position as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1929 where he was a student at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His research involved isolating an organic acid, which he then called "hexuronic acid", from adrenal gland tissue.
caption: Szent-Györgyi in 1917 Italy
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