Andrea Prader, MD (December 23, 1919-June 3, 2001) submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D Andrea Prader was a Swiss pediatrician who came to the United…
Donald S. Fredrickson, MD (August 8, 1924-June 7, 2002) by Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D Dr. Fredrickson received his MD in 1949 from Michigan and did…
Eleanor Colle (MacLean) (January 27 1926-June 2, 2015) Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D Fondly known as “EC”, Dr. Colle was born in Minneapolis, MN, and completed…
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (May 12, 1910-July 29, 1994) Alan D. Rogol MD, Ph.D Dorothy Hodgkin was a Noble Prize (Chemistry) winning British scientist who used…
Alfred Jost, Ph.D (1916-1991) and Sexual Ambiguity Submitted by Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D Alfred Jost was a French fetal endocrinologist who examined mammals (rabbits) rather…
McCune-Albright syndrome (D.J. McCune, MD (1902-1976), Fuller Albright MD (1900-1969) Submitted by: Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D In 1936 McCune described a patient with disseminated osteitis…
Jean H. Dussault, MD Working with our 10th president, Del Fisher, JH Dussault adapted a method for the determination of thyroxine by RIA to blood spots…
Fuller Albright, MD (1900-1969), Albright’s hereditary osteodystrophy Albright described a syndrome in children characterized by short stature, short neck, obesity, subcutaneous calcifications, shortened metacarpals with hypocalcemia…
Franz Josef Kallmann (1897-1965) and Kallmann syndrome Dr. Kallmann, a psychiatrist interested in the genetics of psychiatric diseases described men with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia…
Ernst Knobil, Ph.D (1926-2000) Ernst Knobil was a pioneer in several aspects of endocrinology. He and his colleagues determined the species specificity of primate growth hormones.…