The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977
Awarded on: 1977-10-13
"for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"
Affiliations:
- Veterans Administration Hospital – New Orleans, LA, USA
Andrew V. Schally
Born: 1926-11-30 in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania)
Gender: male
Field: American endocrinologist (1926–2024)
Biography
Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally 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. Later in life, Schally utilized his knowledge of hypothalamic hormones to research possible methods for birth control and cancer treatment.