An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

SZENT-GYÖRGYI, Albert

2 entries
  • 1059

Observations on the function of peroxidase systems and the chemistry of the adrenal cortex. Description of a new carbohydrate derivative.

Biochem. J., 22, 1387-1409, 1928.

Isolation of vitamin C, ascorbic acid. Szent-Györgyi was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1937 for his discoveries in connexion with the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid.



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins
  • 1072

Vitamin P: Flavonols as vitamins.

Nature (Lond.), 138, 27, 1936.

Discovery of vitamin P (“citrin”).



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins