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'''Andrzej Viktor Schally''', also known as '''Andrew V. Schally''', born [[november 30]] [[1926]] in [[Wilno]], [[Poland]] (now [[Vilnius]], [[Lithuania]]), is an [[endocrinologist]] and [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (1977) in Medicine.

==Life==
Born in Poland, Andrew Schally received his education in Scotland and England. In 1952, he moved to Canada. He received his doctorate in [[endocrinology]] from [[McGill University]] in 1957.  That same year he left for a research career in the [[United States]] where he has worked principally at [[Tulane University]]. A Canadian citizen when he left Canada, Schally became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United States in 1962. He was affiliated with the [[Baylor College of Medicine]] for some years in Houston, Texas.[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1977/schally-autobio.html]

He developed a whole new realm of knowledge concerning the brain’s control over the body chemistry. His works also addressed birth control methods and growth [[hormones]]. He - as well as [[Roger Guillemin]]- described the [[neurohormone]] [[GnRH]] that controls [[FSH]] and [[LH]].

==Honors==
He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the [[Jagiellonian University]] in [[Kraków]], [[Poland]].

He received a [[Nobel Prize]] in Medicine in 1977.

==See also==
*[[List of Poles#Biology|List of Poles]] (biology)

==References==
*[[Aleksandra Ziółkowska Boehm|Aleksandra Ziółkowska]], ''Korzenie są polskie'' (The Roots Are Polish), Warsaw, 1992, ISBN 83-7066-406-7.
*[[Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm]], ''The Roots Are Polish'', Toronto, 2004, ISBN 0-920517-05-6.
* Nicholas Wade, ''The Nobel Duel'', Garden City, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981.

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