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Taking all these useful studies of Dr. Szent-Györgyi into consideration, especially the studies on the fundamental process of oxidation (combustion) in the human body, general studies of carbohydrate transformation which he still pursues, the Nobel Prize Committee of tense doctors in Stockholm last week selected him for the 1937 medicine award. A few minutes after signing the certificate of award, Chairman Hans Christian Jacobaeus of that committee collapsed and died of heart failure. Dr. Szent-Györgyi will soon go to Vanderbilt University to deliver a lecture on oxidation.
In Szeged, Dr. Szent-Györgyi, learning of his laureateship, exclaimed in heavily accented English: "Of course, I am very thankful. I do not know what I am going to do with the money. But up to now I have put every nickel I possess into my work." Then he took one of his long, lonely walks.