<P> From 1928 to 1932 , Albert Szent - Györgyi and Joseph L. Svirbely 's Hungarian team , and Charles Glen King 's American team , identified the anti-scorbutic factor . Szent - Györgyi isolated hexuronic acid from animal adrenal glands , and suspected it to be the antiscorbutic factor . In late 1931 , Szent - Györgyi gave Svirbely the last of his adrenal - derived hexuronic acid with the suggestion that it might be the anti-scorbutic factor . By the spring of 1932 , King 's laboratory had proven this , but published the result without giving Szent - Györgyi credit for it . This led to a bitter dispute over priority . In 1933 , Walter Norman Haworth chemically identified the vitamin as L - hexuronic acid , proving this by synthesis in 1933 . Haworth and Szent - Györgyi proposed that L - hexuronic acid be named a-scorbic acid , and chemically L - ascorbic acid , in honor of its activity against scurvy . The term 's etymology is from Latin , `` a - '' meaning away , or off from , while - scorbic is from Medieval Latin scorbuticus ( pertaining to scurvy ) , cognate with Old Norse skyrbjugr , French scorbut , Dutch scheurbuik and Low German scharbock . Partly for this discovery , Szent - Györgyi was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine , and Haworth shared that year 's Nobel Prize in Chemistry . </P>
<P> From 1928 to 1932 , Albert Szent - Györgyi and Joseph L. Svirbely 's Hungarian team , and Charles Glen King 's American team , identified the anti-scorbutic factor . Szent - Györgyi isolated hexuronic acid from animal adrenal glands , and suspected it to be the antiscorbutic factor . In late 1931 , Szent - Györgyi gave Svirbely the last of his adrenal - derived hexuronic acid with the suggestion that it might be the anti-scorbutic factor . By the spring of 1932 , King 's laboratory had proven this , but published the result without giving Szent - Györgyi credit for it . This led to a bitter dispute over priority . In 1933 , Walter Norman Haworth chemically identified the vitamin as L - hexuronic acid , proving this by synthesis in 1933 . Haworth and Szent - Györgyi proposed that L - hexuronic acid be named a-scorbic acid , and chemically L - ascorbic acid , in honor of its activity against scurvy . The term 's etymology is from Latin , `` a - '' meaning away , or off from , while - scorbic is from Medieval Latin scorbuticus ( pertaining to scurvy ) , cognate with Old Norse skyrbjugr , French scorbut , Dutch scheurbuik and Low German scharbock . Partly for this discovery , Szent - Györgyi was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine , and Haworth shared that year 's Nobel Prize in Chemistry . </P>
when was vitamin c discovered and by whom
when was vitamin c discovered and by whom
1928 to 1932 Albert Szent - Györgyi and Joseph L. Svirbely 's Hungarian team , and Charles Glen King 's American team
1928 to 1932 Albert Szent - Györgyi and Joseph L. Svirbely 's Hungarian team , and Charles Glen King 's American team