Nicolae Paulescu (* 30 October 1869 in Bucharest; "† 17 July 1931 in Bucharest) was a Romanian physiologist, professor and the discoverer of the insulin.

Already in its early school years it showed large interest in the natural sciences, in particular at physics and chemistry, in addition, at the classical languages (latin and oldGreek) which it flowing controlled and French.

It drove to Paris in the autumn from 1888, where it studied medicine. 1897 it acquired the doctor title into medicine and at the same time the rank of the Generalchirurges with Notre Dame you the Perpetuel Secours hospital.

1900 returned Paulescu to Romania, where he was busy up to its death as physiology professor and a director of the pc. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Bucharest.

1916 kept aqueous a pankreatisches excerpt that injected to Paulescu, in an sugar-ill dog, when effectively put out. After through the First World War it set its research work for that for caused temporal distance locates the antidiabetischen pankreatischen hormone (Pankrein) away.

From 24 April to 23.Juni 1921 Paulescu in several expenditures published the results of its research at the Romanian department of the society for biology in Paris:

• The effect of the pankreatischen excerpt, which was injected intravenously to an sugar-ill animal.
• The influence of the time after the intravenous injected to the pankreatischen solution in an sugar-ill animal.
• The effect of the pankreatischen excerpt, which was injected intravenously to a healthy animal.

It wrote also a complete Monographie to this topic, which was called "“research concerning the role of the Pankreas in the food assimilation"”, which it would send on 22 June to the Archives international de Physiologie in and in August 1921 was published.

It patented also the manufacturing process of the Pankrein with patent number 6254 on 10 April 1922, with the Ministry for industry and trade in Romania.

Eight months after Paulescu the Ergebnisser of its work, published at the university of Toronto the doctor Frederick Grant Banting and the biochemist John James Richard Macleod, Mitarbeiser of the university of Toronto, their results had published over the Hyperglycemie at the sugar-ill dogs and announced a discovering of a pankreatischen excerpt. Their publication was rather a confirmation of the results the Nicolae Paulescu a few years had before already determined, with direct references to its this article.

In the following year they received surprisingly to the Nobelpreis 1923 in medicine, while the work was completely ignored by Nicolae Paulescu. Earnings/services of Nicolae Paulescu, as a discoverer that insulin, were recognized only 50 years later.

Nicolae Paulescu has also a shade side. It published into 30's several anti-Semitic articles within the political range: The Judeo masonische Komplott against the Romanian nation and the Jews and the alcoholism.

On 27 August 2003 a monument for Paulescu at the Dieu hospital in Paris should be revealed. After the protest of several Jewish organizations the ceremony was called off.

Related links

• Statement of Nicolae Cajal
• http://www.yotor.org/wiki/en/ni/Nicolae%20Paulescu.htm
• http://www.diabetesvoice.org/issues/2001-12/Lessons_from_the_history_of_insulin.pdf

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