Vitamin C was first isolated in 1928 by Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi, who extracted the compound from animal adrenal glands and later from plants such as paprika. He initially called it hexuronic acid. In the early 1930s, researchers confirmed that this substance was the same compound that prevented scurvy and renamed it ascorbic acid (“anti-scurvy acid”). Szent-Györgyi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 for his discoveries related to vitamin C and biological oxidation..
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