Mar 19, 2023
Can you guess what this picture is? It's actually an image of Vitamin C, taken with polarised light. Vitamin C is essential for collagen formation and wound healing and a lack of it can lead to scurvy. Its study led to the awarding of both the medicine and chemistry prizes in 1937: the first to Albert von Szent-Györgyi, who first isolated the vitamin, and the second to Norman Haworth for determining its molecular structure. More about the 1937 medicine prize: https://bit.ly/2QcpJGC More about the 1937 chemistry prize: https://bit.ly/2U4IxbI
(Source: The Nobel Prize Linked In page)
