In 1937, Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer and Albert Szent-Györgyi all received Nobel Prizes for synthesizing L-ascorbic acid and understanding its biochemistry
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He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the
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During the 16th century sea voyagers and sailors died from a disease called scurvy
They are divided into oxidized and reduced forms
Some 75 years later, vitamin C still IN view of the facts that (1) hexuronic acid is the name of a class of substances rather than that of one individual compound, and that (2) the material described as hexuronic acid isolated from Ascorbic Acid / isolation & purification England History, 20th Century United States Writing Substances Ascorbic Acid Personal name as subject A Szent-Györgi C G King A Szent-Györgi Haworth and Szent-Györgyi proposed to name l-hexuronic acid as a-scorbic acid, and chemically l-ascorbic acid, in honor of its activity against scurvy
The regeneration of tocopherol persists until all ascorbate is consumed (Lambelet et al
In late 1931, King's lab obtained adrenal hexuronic acid indirectly from Szent-Györgyi and, using their animal model, proved that it is vitamin C, by early 1932
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Larger doses are required to treat a severe deficiency of vitamin C intake, as in the case of scurvy
[PMC free article] [Google Scholar] GROLLMAN Wanting to know the chemical structure of ascorbic acid, Szent-Gy ö rgyi gave a sample to Walter Haworth, a chemistry professor at the University of Birmingham in England and an expert in carbohydrate (sugar) chemistry