HORNREICH COLLECTION of World and U.S. Historical Medals Including So-Called Dollars
Hungary Bz Plaquette Nobel Prize Winner, Medicine 1937
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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 |
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.