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Andrew Schally
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Polish-American endocrinologist (1926–2024)
Andrew Schally was a Polish-American endocrinologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for his discoveries about hormones in the brain that control the pituitary gland. His work helped explain how the body regulates important functions like reproduction and metabolism, which has contributed to treatments for conditions ranging from cancer to infertility.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1948-03-22
Discography
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5 total works indexed
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· 2021 · cited 43,689x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
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- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1977
“for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrew
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Vilnius
- Place of death
- Miami Beach
- Father
- Kazimierz Schally
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of New Orleans
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- physiology
- Image
- Andrew Schally portrait.jpg
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- birth name
- Andrzej Wiktor Schally
- date of birth
- 1926-11-30
- member of
- Royal National Academy of Medicine
- Commons category
- Andrew Schally
- name in native language
- Andrew Schally
- interested in
- biochemistry
- date of death
- 2024-10-17
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Encyclopedic overview
Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally (30 November 1926 – 17 October 2024) was a Polish-American endocrinologist who was a co-recipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
This award recognized his research in the discovery that the hypothalamus controls hormone production and release by the pituitary gland, which controls the regulation of other hormones in the body.
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