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Andrew Schally

1926 - 2024

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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. Later in life, Schally utilized his knowledge of hypothalamic hormones to research possible methods for birth control and cancer treatment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Schally is the 171st most popular physician (down from 112th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 25th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Physician. Learn more about Andrew Schally's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Andrew Schally ranks 171 out of 726. Before him are Magnus Hirschfeld, E. Donnall Thomas, Sushruta, Carl Wernicke, Albert of Riga, and Severo Ochoa. After him are Merit-Ptah, Oswald Avery, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Bernardo Houssay, Friedrich Miescher, and Robert Knox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Andrew Schally ranks 77. Before him are John Fowles, Yoshio Okada, George Martin, Hilary Putnam, Jorge Medina, and György Kurtág. After him are Henry Way Kendall, Gyula Grosics, Steve Reeves, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Dennis W. Sciama, and Robert Fogel. Among people deceased in 2024, Andrew Schally ranks 74. Before him are Carl Weathers, Kurt Hamrin, Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Salvatore Schillaci, and Dikembe Mutombo. After him are Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, Angelo Amato, Marcello Gandini, Daniel Dennett, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, and Fraser Stoddart.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Andrew Schally ranks 33 out of 328. Before him are Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Hacı I Giray (1397), Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), and Gitanas Nausėda (1964). After him are Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), Boris Skossyreff (1896), Treniota (1210), Andrius Kubilius (1956), and Skirgaila (1354).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Lithuania

Among physicians born in Lithuania, Andrew Schally ranks 1. After him are Oskar Minkowski (1858), and Napoleon Cybulski (1854).

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