At the beginning of last week the Google Doodle celebrated iconic musician Freddy Mercury who’s music will live on as long as there’s a means with which to play it. This week, we are celebrating a very different man. His name is Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.
Szent-Gyorgyi is a Hungarian physiologist whose name I have to admit, did not ring a bell. He died in 1986 at the age of 93, but if still alive today he would be 118. While the name may not be familiar, Szent-Gyorgyi is the man who discovered vitamin C.
Albert wasn’t your typical scientist. He initially got bored of studying medicine and dropped out of university, then he got drafted to serve as an army medic in World War I. He hated war so much he shot himself in the arm in 1916 so as to be sent home, at which point he managed to finish his studies and become a doctor.
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