ANDREW V. SCHALLY - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED 06/25/1982 CO-SIGNED BY: ROGER GUILLEMIN - HFSID 47896
Price: $140.00
ANDREW V. SCHALLY and ROGER GUILLEMIN
The 1977 Nobel Prize winners in medicine sign a First Day Cover
honoring Dr. May Edwards Walker.
First Day Cover signed: "Andrew V. Schally" and
"Roger Guillemin/June 25. 1982", 6½x3¾. FDC honoring Dr. Mary Edwards
Walker, 20-cent stamp affixed, postmarked Oswego, New York, June 10,
1982, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Names of signers typed at upper margin, brief
caption typed on flap on verso. Polish-born, British-educated ANDREW
SCHALLY (born Andrezej Wiktor Schally in 1926), working at the U.S. Veterans
Administration Hospital, Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and
French-born ROGER GUILLEMIN (born in 1924), of the Salk Institute in San
Diego, California shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the
brain. Schally's work focused on the brain's control over body chemistry,
and he also researched birth control methods and growth hormones. Guillemin's
work brought to light an entire new class of substances shown to be important
for the regulation of growth, development, reproduction and responses to stress.
The impact of his studies has been profound for a variety of diseases and
disorders, including thyroid diseases, problems of infertility, diabetes and
several types of tumors. Slightly creased and soiled. Fine
condition.
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