Introduction to a Submolecular Biology / Bioelectronics
With this work the 1937 Nobel laureate in Medicine founded modern bioelectronics, showing that biological proteins behave as semiconductors. After identifying vitamin C and helping to understand the Krebs cycle, Szent-Györgyi shifted his attention from the chemistry to the physics of living matter: the flow of electrons is the organising principle of physiology, every healthy cell maintains a precise electrical potential, and biochemical reactions are subordinate to deeper electronic processes. A work decades ahead of contemporary biophysics.
The BrainCode® Integrated Device introduces the corrective signal into the perineural semiconducting system that Szent-Györgyi identified as the organising substrate of physiology.