Technikatörténeti szemle 22. (1996)

Papers from the Second International Conference on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Industry (Eger, Hungary, 16–19 August, 1995) - Hannus, István: Albert Szent-Györgyi in the New York Times

After this, news about him and his work regularly appeared in The New York Times each year, as shown in Table 2. The items included scientific reports about his new research results, minor news announcements of different events, letters to the editor, philosophical articles of Szent-Györgyi about the future and interviews with him. Two maxima are revealed by the statistics. The first was in the early sixties, when, besides the scientific reports, several "Letters to The Times" were published that warned against the danger of atomic war. The second maximum occurred in the early seventies, when Albert Szent-Györgyi was very active against the Vietnam War. For example, following the publication of his famous booklet "The Crazy Ape", he participated in a lengthy interview entitled "Biologist Doubts Man's Survival in a World Run by 'Idiots' Too Old to Change"

10 and he wrote an article "15 Minutes to Zero"

11 at that time. Later, his activity decreased and in 1986 The New York Times published his necrology.

12 He was 93 years old. It is symbolic that, one week after his death, the Patents section of the journal included a short news item: "Patent No. 4,620,014 was granted for compounds to help stimulate the body's immune system. The work was done by the late Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Nobel winner, and Gábor B. Fodor of the University of West Virginia."

13 References 1 Mihály Beck: The Prize and the Hungarians (published in Hungarian), Természet Világa, 1995, p. 531. 2 Tibor Szabó, Andor Zallár: Albert Szent-Györgyi in Szeged and the Szent-Györgyi Collection (published in Hungarian), Csongrád Megyei Levéltár, 1989. 3 Ralph W. Moss: Free Radical - Albert Szent-Györgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C, Paragon House Publishers, New York, 1988. 4 Linus Pauling: How to Live Longer and Feel Better, Avon Books, New York, 1987. 5 The New York Times, March 26, 1933. 6 ibid, April 2, 1933. 7 ibid, October 29, 1937. 8 ibid, March 15, 1954. 9 ibid, February 22, 1955. 10 ibid, February 20, 1970. 11 ibid, September 25, 1970. 12 ibid, October 25, 1986. 13 ibid, November 1, 1986.