Andrew Schally - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	30-November-1926
Place of Birth	Vilnius (Lithuania, AukÅ¡taitija, Vilnius County)
Nationality	Poland, United States of America
Also know as	Andrzej Schally
Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally is an American endocrinologist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine, sharing the prize that year with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

Awards by Andrew Schally

Check all the awards nominated and won by Andrew Schally.

1977

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain)

1975

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(For determination of the structure of hypothalamic hormones, their synthesis, and elucidation of their role in endocrine function\u2014work which is considered the decisive physiological and biochemical evidence of neurohormones in mammals. Such research has established the fact that the pituitary gland and certain other glands of the endocrine system are regulated by the brain through the hypothalamus.)

1974

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For outstanding work on the identification, synthesis and clinical application of hypothalamic releasing hormones.)

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