HORNREICH COLLECTION of U.S. & World Medal Plaques
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Coin Details

Origin/Country: Hungary Budapest 1937
Design Description: Bz Plaquette Medical Portrait
Item Description: Bronze 1937 By Laszlo Zechmeister 1937 Hungary Bz Plaquette Nobel Prize Winner
Full Grade: MS 63
Owner: Spencer Collection

Set Details

Custom Sets: HORNREICH COLLECTION of U.S. & World Medal Plaques
HORNREICH COLLECTION of World and U.S. Historical Medals Including So-Called Dollars
Competitive Sets: This coin is not competing in any sets.

Owner Comments:

Medal, Plaquette, 1937, Bronze, Hungary. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI (1893-1986). Portrait Plaquette, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER in 1937, for his discoveries in connection with the biologic combustion processes, with special reference to Vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid. Field: Cell Physiology, Metabolism. Also active in the Hungarian Resistance during WWII, and Hungarian Politics after the War. Obv. Portrait of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi with inscription: "Nagyrapolti Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Szeged" with date 1937. Uniface. Size: 2 Inches x 3.25 Inches.

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