1. The scientist who discovered insulin
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Nicolae Paulescu ( )
The scientist who discovered insulin

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The scientific career
He was a Romanian physiologist and professor of medicine, who worked on pancreine (a pancreatic extract containing  insulin). He discovered the antidiabetic hormone released by the pancreas, later called insulin.

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Important researches
In 1906 he developed an original method of extirpation of the hypophysis into the dog via the trans-temporal pathway, which will be applied in surgery in humans. His innovative research inspired, later, the work of American neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing.

4. In honor of Nicolae Paulescu
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In honor of Nicolae Paulescu
In 1993, the Institute of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases in Bucharest was named in his honor.

5. A stamp in honor of Paulescu
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Statue of Nicolae Paulescu, next to the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, unveiled on August 2001, in the presence of Sir George Alberti, President of the International Diabetes Federation.
A stamp in honor of Paulescu

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