Andrew Victor Schally
Andrew Victor Schally ( Polish Andrzej Wiktor Schally ; born November 30, 1926 in Wilno , then Poland , now Lithuania ) is a Polish-American physiologist , endocrinologist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine . He did significant work on the release hormones of the hypothalamus .
Life
Schally, son of the Polish general Kazimierz Schally and Maria Lacka Schally, grew up in Poland, spent the time of National Socialism in Romania and emigrated to Scotland in 1945. He studied chemistry at London University and worked from 1949 research at the National Institute for Medical Research ; his work has been heavily influenced by the work of other notable scientists such as Rodney R. Porter , Archer John Porter Martin . and John Warcup Cornforth . In 1952 he went to Canada and studied biochemistry and endocrinology at McGill University in Montreal. In 1957 he made his PhD in biochemistry there and then became an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. There he researched hormones that are produced by the hypothalamus. Together with Roger Guillemin , he tried to decipher the chemical structure of CRH hormones , but failed (the structure was not deciphered until 1981). They then focused on other hypothalamic hormones. They later became rivals for years in research and in the struggle for the Nobel Prize, which Nicholas Wade processed into his book The Nobel Duel in 1981 .
In 1962 he became director of an endocrinology laboratory for the research of hypothalamic hormones in New Orleans (Louisiana) and took a position as assistant professor of medicine at Tulane University (from 1966 full professor). He received American citizenship in 1962.
In 1966 he and his colleagues were able to isolate the thyrotropin releasing hormone thyreoliberin (Thyreotropin Releasing Hormone, TRH), and Guillemin finally determined its chemical structure. They provided further important work on the chemical composition and function of other hormones of the hypothalamus, such as gonadoliberin .
AV Schally is the author or co-author of over 2200 scientific publications.
Schally was first married to Margaret Rachel White, with whom he has two children. In 1976 he married Ana Maria de Medeiros-Comaru, a Brazilian endocrinologist who died in 2004.
Awards (selection)
- 1974 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1975 Lasker Award
- 1975 Borden Award in Medical Research
- 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discoveries about the production of peptide hormones in the brain" (together with Roger Guillemin )
- 1978 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1978 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg
- 2004 Officer of the Legion of Honor
- Member of the Academy of Sciences: Brazil , Mexico , Poland , Spain , Hungary , the USA , Venezuela
Publications (selection)
- with A. Arimura, TW Redding a. a .: Hypthalamic neurohormones regulating anterior pituitary function. In: Recent Progr. Hormone Res. Volume 24, 1968, pp. 497-588.
- with William Locke: The Hypothalamus and Pituitary in Health and Disease. Springfield, IL, 1972, ISBN 0-398-02526-6 .
literature
- Nicholas Wade: The Nobel Duel: Two scientists' 21-year race to win the world's most coveted research prize , Garden City, NY, 1981, ISBN 0-385-14981-6 .
- Gisela Baumgart: Schally, Andrew Victor. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1288 f.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1977 award ceremony for Andrew Victor Schally (English)
- New York Times article on The Nobel Duel
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- http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1977/schally-bio.html (English)
- http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/19/Andrew-V-Schally.html (English)
- http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/laureates/schally (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schally, Andrew Victor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schally, Andrzej Wiktor (Polish) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-American physiologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilno (Wilna), then Poland , now Lithuania |