Andrew Schally
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Andrzej Viktor Schally, also known as Andrew V. Schally, born november 30 1926 in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), is an endocrinologist and Nobel Prize laureate (1977) in Medicine.
Life
Born in Poland, Andrew Schally received his education in Scotland and England. In 1952, he moved to Canada. He received his doctorate in endocrinology from McGill University in 1957. That same year he left for a research career in the United States where he has worked principally at Tulane University. A Canadian citizen when he left Canada, Schally became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1962. He was affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine for some years in Houston, Texas.[3]
He developed a whole new realm of knowledge concerning the brain’s control over the body chemistry. His works also addressed birth control methods and growth hormones. He - as well as Roger Guillemin- described the neurohormone GnRH that controls FSH and LH.
Honors
He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
He received a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1977.
See also
- List of Poles (biology)
References
- Aleksandra Ziółkowska, Korzenie są polskie (The Roots Are Polish), Warsaw, 1992, ISBN 83-7066-406-7.
- Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, The Roots Are Polish, Toronto, 2004, ISBN 0-920517-05-6.
- Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, Women Need Penises, Too, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-982739-04-8.
- Nicholas Wade, The Nobel Duel, Garden City, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981.
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