Andrew V. Schally
Polish-American endocrinologist
Died when: 97 years 322 days (1174 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally (born 30 November 1926) was an American endocrinologist of Polish ancestry, who was a corecipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the 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.
Later in life Schally utilized his knowledge of hypothalamic hormones to research possible methods for birth control and cancer treatment.
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