During the first year of his fellowship at Cambridge, Szent-Gyorgyi was able to isolate--from orange and cabbage juice--the reducing substance he had found in earlier work with adrenal glands. He found that it was a carbohydrate, perhaps a sugar acid, but needed to name it before he published his results. The editor of the Biochemical Journal rejected Szent-Gyorgyi's humorous names ("Ignose," then "Godnose") and suggested "hexuronic acid.". Szent-Gyorgyi was awarded a PhD from Cambridge for this work in 1927. In 1932, he would find that "hexuronic acid" was in fact vitamin C.
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