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...Olympians include Albert de Szent-Györgyi, the Hungarian Nobel Prizewinner who found vitamin C in paprika; Wendell Meredith Stanley of Rockefeller Institute, who succeeded in crystallizing a virus; Frits Went of California Institute of Technology, No. 1 U. S. researcher on plant hormones. There is just one mildly disturbing thing about the assembly. One of the most distinguished of the 16*-one whose solid scientific achievements are no greater than those of some others but who stands out because he is a notable leader of science, teacher of science, preacher of science, historian of science, analyst of science...
...Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Albert Szent-Györgyi, a peripatetic Hungarian who extracted a substance called ascorbic acid from adrenal glands and plants and later identified this acid with Vitamin C (TIME Nov. 8). Szent-Györgyi's long researches on carbohydrate metabolism and oxidation also counted with the committeemen, but that they were largely preoccupied with Vitamin C this year was shown when they split the Prize for Chemistry between Haworth of England who mapped the vitamin's complex molecular structure, and Karrer of Switzerland who synthesized it. The Index...
Last month when the 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Szent-Györgyi, it seemed that the Swedish Academy of Sciences had passed up Haworth and Karrer (TIME, Nov. 8). Last week, well aware that the modern divisions of science overlap considerably, the Academy evened things up by announcing that the 1937 prize for Chemistry would go to Biochemists Haworth and Karrer...
...centuries ago British sailors learned to eat citrus fruits to keep free of scurvy. Within the past five years Vitamin C has been identified, its chemical structure determined, its synthetic preparation accomplished. Albert Szent-Györgyi of Hungary found a substance in animal adrenal glands, ascorbic acid, which turned out to be the same thing as Vitamin C, and extracted large quantities of ascorbic acid from paprika. Walter Norman Haworth of England plotted the architecture of the molecule and Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized...
...Szent-Györgyi later found, along with Vitamin C in fruit juices and adrenals, a "permeability factor" which he calls Vitamin P, not present in synthesized C. Vitamin P keeps the walls of body cells in good condition. Without both, a person develops pyorrhea and scurvy. He bleeds easily, may be subject to certain virus and bacterial diseases. With an ample supply of these vitamins, he can overcome such ailments. Although Hungarian pepper is the most abundant source of these vitamins, this condiment is little known in the U. S. Most convenient source of the vitamins thus remain...