X-Nico

unusual facts about Szent-Györgyi



Ágoston Pável

Pável gained a scholarship, was exempted from tuition fees and taught as an assistant professor, where one of his students was Albert Szent-Györgyi, later a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology.

Budapest-Nyugati Railway Terminal

The station gave name to the immediately adjacent Nyugati tér (Western Square), a major intersection where Teréz körút (Theresia Boulevard), Szent István körút (Saint Stephen Boulevard), Váci út (Váci Avenue), and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út (Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Avenue) converge.

Citric acid

The series of reactions is known by various names, including the "citric acid cycle", the "Krebs cycle" or "Szent-Györgyi — Krebs cycle", and the "tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle".

Delbert Philpott

At the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago he established the first electron microscope facility, before moving to the Marine Biological Lab and Institute for Muscle Research in Woods Hole, MA in 1952, where he was Head of Electron Microscopy, directing research projects under Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi in the winter and for the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole during the summer.

Ferencz József Koháry de Csábrág

He was the son of Ignác József Anton Franz Xaver, Count Koháry de Csábrág and Szitnya, Honti fõispán (obergespan) (Szent-Antal, 2 December 1726 – Vienna, 10 October 1777) and his wife, married at Seiffersdorf, on 15 January 1758 or 4 August 1761, Countess Maria Gabriella Cavriani di Imena (Vienna, 25 April 1736 – Pest, 29 July 1803).

Gyorgyi

Dénes Györgyi (1886–1961), Hungarian architect, a member of the Györgyi-Giergl artistic family

Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986), Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937

Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, originally established in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, in 1872

Kálmán Györgyi

After that Györgyi was appointed Ministerial Commissioner responsible for codification of criminal law, under Minister Ibolya Dávid.

Norman Haworth

Haworth had been given his initial reference sample of "water-soluble vitamin C" or "hexuronic acid" (the previous name for the compound as extracted from natural products) by Hungarian physiologist Albert Szent-György, who had codiscovered its vitamin properties along with Charles Glen King, and had more recently discovered that it could be extracted in bulk from Hungarian paprika.

Szent László Gimnázium

Founded in 1907, Szent László Gimnázium is located in Kőbánya, Budapest’s 10th District.


see also