An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16077 entries, 14165 authors and 1948 subjects. Updated: October 12, 2025

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.

In 1937 Szent-Györgyi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries in connexion with the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid."



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins
  • 1072

Vitamin P: Flavonols as vitamins.

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

Discovery of vitamin P (“citrin”).



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins