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.