Andrezej Viktor “Andrew” Schally, Ph.D. (November 30, 1926 to October 17, 2024)
Submitted by Alan Rogol, MD
Andrezej Viktor “Andrew” Schally, Ph.D. (November 30, 1926 to October 17, 2024)
Andrew Schally is a recently deceased Polish-American scientist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Yalow. He began his research career as a refugee technician and later earned a doctorate at McGill University. He moved with Dr. Guillemin to Baylor University before going to Tulane University where he completed the bulk of his work on hypothalamic releasing hormones. His contribution along with his collaborator and then antagonist Dr. Guillemin was to define the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH). Before that his personal contribution was the dissection of 250,000 pig hypothalami to obtain 5 mg of thyrotropin releasing hormone and determine its structure, a tripeptide with a blocked amino terminus (Biochem 1970; 9:1103).