Andrew Schally

Andrew Schally got married for the first time to Margaret Rachel White and had a son and a daughter from the marriage. The couple later got divorced.

He married Ana Maria de Mederios-Comaru in 1976 but he did not have any children from this marriage.

Andrew Schally was born on November 30, 1926, in Wilno, Poland which later came to be known as Vilnius located in Lithuania. His father, Kazimierz Piotr Schally, was a Brigadier General in the Polish Army and his mother was Maria Lacka Schally, the daughter of a Polish Army officer.

He had a sister named Halina Schally.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, he had to flee from Poland with his family to neutral Romania.

After the war ended in 1945, he moved to Italy, France, England, Scotland and Canada before settling in America. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1962.

He did his initial schooling from the ‘Beaconhurst School, Bridge of Allen’ in Scotland and graduated from it in 1946.

Andrew Schally joined the ‘Baylor University College of Medicine’ in Houston, Texas, USA, and worked from September 1957 to 1962 as an Assistant Professor of Physiology. He was also a ‘Senior Research Fellow’ of the ‘US Public Health Service’ during this period.

In 1961 he studied column electrophoresis at the ‘Institute of Biochemistry’ under the ‘University of Uppsala’ for one month.

He was appointed the Chief of a research laboratory set up by the ‘Veterans Administration’ or VA in New Orleans which helped him to continue with his research work.

In December 1962 he was appointed as the Chief of the ‘Endocrine and Polypeptide Laboratories’ at the VA Hospital in New Orleans.

He also joined the ‘Tulane University’ in 1962 as an Associate Professor of Medicine and became a full professor in 1966 at the same university.

Andrew Schally co-authored the book ‘The Hypothalamus and Pituary in Health and Disease’ with William Locke which was published in 1972.