Hungarian Inventors Series - Albert Szent-Györgyi Vitamin C planbureau Made by Zsuzsanna Péger

Made by Zsuzsanna Péger

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Hungarian Inventors Series - Albert Szent-Györgyi Vitamin C planbureau Made by Zsuzsanna PégerAlbert Szent Gyrgyi Vitamin C Did you know? By the 1920s, it was understood that scurvy was prevented by the effect of a compound which was therefore named ascorbic acid ( from the Latin name for scurvy) or vitamin C. However, the scientific composition of this substance was not understood. Albert Szent Gyrgyi identified a subtance which he labelled "hexuronic acid", which he suspected to be ascorbic acid. In 1932 that Szent Gyrgyi was able to extract