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Andrew Schally

1926 - Today

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Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally (born 30 November 1926) is an American endocrinologist of Polish ancestry, who was a corecipient, 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 113,020 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Andrew Schally is the 175th most popular physician (down from 172nd in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Physician.

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  • 110k

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  • 59.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Andrew Schally ranks 175 out of 502Before him are Dominique Jean Larrey, Anthony Fauci, Alexander Bogdanov, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Erasistratus, and Hans Rosling. After him are Thomas Willis, Patch Adams, Charaka, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Albert of Riga, and Georges Gilles de la Tourette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Andrew Schally ranks 76Before him are Kim Jae-gyu, Gyula Grosics, Henry Way Kendall, Jean-Pierre Serre, Masatoshi Koshiba, and Alan Greenspan. After him are John Berger, Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Gus Grissom, Jorge Medina, Poul Anderson, and James Stirling.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Andrew Schally ranks 34 out of 287Before him are Wilfrid Voynich (1865), Isaac Levitan (1860), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799). After him are Gitanas Nausėda (1964), Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943), Leo Jogiches (1867), Skirgaila (1354), Jacques Lipchitz (1891), and Boris Skossyreff (1896).

Among PHYSICIANS In Lithuania

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