The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937

Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937 was awarded to Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"

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