Albert Szent-Györgyi: Szeged’s Nobel Laureate
The Story of Albert Szent-Györgyi’s Nobel Prize:
Adventures, Intriguing Insights, and Documents from the Archives
This exhibition was organized in September 2021 to commemorate the centenary of the University of Szeged and the renaming of its medical faculty to Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School.
Created by Kornélia Pap, member of the University Collection staff of the Klebelsberg Library at the University of Szeged and curator of the collection honoring Szent-Györgyi, the exhibition features documents from the Szent-Györgyi Collection.
To date, physician and biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi (b. Budapest, 1893; d. Woods Hole, 1986) remains the only Hungarian scientist to have received the Nobel Prize for research conducted while living in Hungary. In 1937, he was awarded the prize "for his discoveries in connection with biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid" in recognition of his work in Szeged.
