Albert Szent-Györgyi is one of the few Hungarian scientists who has gained big recognition all over the world. The Nobel Prize-winning researcher awarded for isolating vitamin C is certainly one of the most exciting personalities ever. Many people might know that he used paprika for his breakthrough research. But only few people know that this…
The history of Szeged and paprika have been forever linked together thanks to the local Franciscans and Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi. Another emblematic figure, though much less known, is chemist and paprika researcher Ernő Obermayer who was born 130 years ago, on 13 December 1888. Obermayer, a chemistry graduate from Budapest, was the first…
„Discovering is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought” said Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine in 1937. Albert Szent-Györgyi was born on 16 September 1893. In this post we are celebrating the life and work of this wonderful man. A charming personality, an eventful…