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Andrew Schally

1926 - 2024

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Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally (30 November 1926 – 17 October 2024) was a Polish-American endocrinologist who was a co-recipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This award recognized his research in the discovery that the hypothalamus controls hormone production and release by the pituitary gland, which controls the regulation of other hormones in the body. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Schally has received more than 130,842 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Andrew Schally is the 112th most popular physician (up from 175th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 34th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Physician.

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  • 63.82

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  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Andrew Schally ranks 112 out of 726. Before him are Frederick Chapman Robbins, James Parkinson, Ronald Ross, Eric Kandel, Ulf von Euler, and Jonas Salk. After him are Arvid Carlsson, Friedrich Miescher, Niels Kaj Jerne, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Santorio Santorio, and Erasistratus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Andrew Schally ranks 43. Before him are Irwin Rose, Murray Rothbard, Valdas Adamkus, Mel Brooks, Necmettin Erbakan, and Louise Hay. After him are Jack Brabham, Abdus Salam, Alcides Ghiggia, Neal Cassady, David Attenborough, and Vivian Maier. Among people deceased in 2024, Andrew Schally ranks 43. Before him are Ebrahim Raisi, Zvi Zamir, Hage Geingob, Herbert Kroemer, César Luis Menotti, and Seiji Ozawa. After him are Leon Cooper, James Earl Jones, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Maurizio Pollini, Bengt I. Samuelsson, and Roberto Cavalli.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Andrew Schally ranks 25 out of 328. Before him are Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Valdas Adamkus (1926), Antanas Smetona (1874), Barbara Radziwiłł (1520), Marija Gimbutas (1921), and Hacı I Giray (1397). After him are Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799), Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Moshe Arens (1925), and Gabriel Narutowicz (1865).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Lithuania

Among physicians born in Lithuania, Andrew Schally ranks 1. After him are Oskar Minkowski (1858), and Napoleon Cybulski (1854).

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