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VITAMINS MINERALS COENZYMES AND DEFICIENCY DISEASES
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Paul Berg
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Kerry Mull
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Linus Pauling
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Detailed explanation-1: -Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian biochemist, discovered vitamin C and rutin (vitamin P). The role of these vitamins in the body and their application to dermatology is vast. For the discovery of vitamin C and the description of oxidation, Albert Szent-Györgyi received a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1937.
Detailed explanation-2: -Szent-Györgyi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 for his discovery of vitamin C. He is also known for his later contribution to what we know as the Citric Acid (Krebs) cycle.
Detailed explanation-3: -Later on, Szent Györgyi and Haworth chemically identified “C” as ascorbic acid, and named it so because ascorbic means “anti-scurvy.” Over the next century, what we now know as vitamin C became one of the most popular drugs in human history.