March Historical Tidbit – Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History Submitted by Evan Graber, DO In March 1922, Banting and Best published a preliminary report on…
February Historical Tidbit: Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History Submitted by Evan Graber, DO In February 1985, Ullrich et al reported the amino acid sequence of the insulin receptor precursor. This allowed…
Then and Now: This Month in Endocrine History Submitted by Evan Graber, DO In January 1951, Lawson Wilkins et al published their case series demonstrating the…
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 to March 6, 1935) American Jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Stated Submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD,…
Historical Tidbit – Vincent Du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 to December 11, 1978) Nobel Laureate for peptide hormone synthesis Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D. Vincent Du…
Robert McCarrison (March 16, 1878 to May 15, 1960) Iodine deficiency and Himalayan goiter Submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D Robert McCarrison was a physician from…
Berta (December 1, 1906 to July 23, 1995) and Ernst (1905 to April 29, 1965) Scharrer –The beginnings of neurosecretion Submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD,…
Aretaeus of Cappadocia (first and second centuries, CE) Apparent dual function of the testis Submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, the latter…
Robert M. Blizzard, MD (June 20, 1924 to July 22, 2018) Submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D. “Bob” was the consummate pediatric endocrinologist, melding the…
Melvin Malcom Grumbach (December 21, 1925 to October 4, 2016) Submitted by Alan Rogol “Mel” was born in Brooklyn, NY and received most of his advanced…