Word: gyorgyi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have made names for themselves: such musicians as Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy, Joseph Szigeti and Sigmund Romberg; such theatrical personalities as Alexander Korda, Ferenc Molnar, the Gabor sisters, Ilona Massey and Leslie Howard (real name: Arpad Steiner); such scientists as Nobel Prizewinner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (discoverer of vitamin C) and Mathematician John Von Neumann; such public figures as David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller, Socialist Eugene V. Debs...
...Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 60, Hungarian-born refugee from both Nazism and Communism, was named 1954 winner of the $1,000 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association. His brilliant researches into what muscle is and how it works (TIME, July 4, 1949) "have led to new understanding of the basic physiology of the heart," said his citation...