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[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Age: 93 †
Born: 1893
Born: September 16
Died: 1986
Died: October 21
Biochemist
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Albert Imre Szentgyörgyi
Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt
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