An Historical Aside: Most sugars have the suffix -ose
{"Image DocumentName": "An Historical Aside: Most sugars have the suffix -ose", "Image ImageDescription": "Albert Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi ( ) was an Hungarian-American chemist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his isolation of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). He thought it might be a sugar. He isolated the compound, but didn\u2019t know its structure. Originally I called ascorbic acid ignose, not knowing what it was (ignosco meaning, I don\u2019t know). The editor of the Biochemistry Journal reprimanded me for making jokes about science. My proposition Godnose was no more successful. How he came to identify vitamin C: He had tried to isolate it from a number of plant sources One night my wife gave me paprika for supper and I had no desire to eat it, but had no courage to say no. So I told my wife that instead of eating it I would take it to the laboratory. By midnight I knew that it was a treasure trove of ascorbic acid. Copyright \u00a9 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}