14. Albert Szent Györgyi’s cats - ECHOES

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Doing brilliant research is one thing. Recognising it is another. The young Hungarian researcher Albert Szent-Györgyi laboured for months in a Groningen basement, searching for a mysterious substance that would later turn out to be Vitamin C. But as far as his research supervisor was concerned, the work might as well have been thrown in the bin.‘The Cats of Albert Szent-Györgyi’ is the sixth episode of the second season of the UKrant podcast Echoes. Christien Boomsma takes you back to 1926, the year in which the future Nobel Prize winner Szent-Györgyi left the University of Groningen, disillusioned.**This episode was researched and written by Christien Boomsma. Sound and editing: Christien Boomsma. Voice: Tom Wilcox.Want to know more? Read: Jaap J. Beintema, The last month of Szent-Gyorgyi in Groningen, in: Journal of the history of biology, 41(1), 159-165Erik Dücker, Een Nobelprijs geboren in Groningen. Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893 - 1986), (Groningen 2023)Ralph W. Moss, Free Radical: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C. (1988)

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