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Remembrances of Contributions of Philip Smith and Bernardo Houssay to the Development of Neuroendocrinology

Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of California—Los Angeles, School of Medicine

Abstract

Two endocrinologists whose work I always greatly admired, starting in my early graduate student days, and whom I later came to know personally were Philip Smith and Bernardo Houssay. Although both have been universally esteemed and honored as preeminent endocrinologists, their pioneer efforts in neuroendocrinology have not always been recognized as such. Both exerted tremendous influence not only from the importance of their own research, but also because of the many students they trained. Both possessed warm, modest, friendly personalities and were happy to discuss the work of younger colleagues with them. Both lived well past their 80th birthdays, but died in the early 1970s, too early to prepare a chapter for the 1975 volume of Pioneers in Neuroendocrinology.

A major component of Smith's success lay in his remarkable ability to devise and execute precise techniques for clean hypophysectomy that did not damage the hypothalamus.

Footnotes

"Remembrance" articles discuss people and events as remembered by the author. The opinion(s) expressed are solely those of the writer and do not reflect the view of the Journal or The Endocrine Society.

Received March 12, 1991.

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