Albert Szent-Györgyi

Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize winner in physiology and medicine (1937). Working at the University of Szeged, he was the first scientist to isolate Vitamin C, first from adrenal glands, and later from paprika, which is among the vegetables with the highest Vitamin C content. Vitamin C was found to be the agent crucial for the prevention of scurvy, one of the most common diseases related to malnutrition that killed millions of sailors and soldiers throughout history.