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Isolation of vitamin C

1932Medicine & chemistryHungary

In Szeged in 1932, Albert Szent-Györgyi isolated and identified hexuronic acid from paprika, later shown to be identical to vitamin C. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery.

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Szent-Györgyi Albert (1893–1986)
Biochemist
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