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On the occasion of the centennial of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nicolae C. Paulescu—between scientific creativity and political fanatism
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Cajal, Nicolae
CAJAL, NICOLAE (–), medical scholar and communal leader in Romania. Born in Bucharest, the son of the physicist Marcu Cajal, he studied medicine at Bucharest University and Caritas School for Jewish Students of medicin (during the Holocaust period), became a doctor in , and began work as a microbiologist. He taught virology at Bucharest University, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, becoming a professor and head of the Department of Virology (). As deputy director (–67) and director (–94) of the Institute of Inframicrobiology of the Romanian Academy, he published some scholarly works in this field and edited the Revista Romana de Virusologie ("Romanian Review of Virology," –). He was a corresponding member () and member () of the Romanian Academy, becoming president of the Section of Medical Sciences. He was also president of the Consultative Council for Research and Development of Romania (–95) and president of the Menachem Elias Foundation and Hospital created
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On the occasion of the centennial of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nicolae C. Paulescu—between scientific creativity and political fanatism
Abstract
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Since the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in to FG Banting and JJR Macleod, many voices have been raised against this decision. The bitterest protest was that of the Romanian scientist Nicolae C. Paulescu. In , The Romanian Academy of Sciences, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) planned to hold a series of academic events the following year in Paris to acknowledge Paulescu's scientific merits in the discovery of the antidiabetic hormone. However, the initiative was cancelled in August , when the European Center of the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation (SWC) accused Paulescu of being antisemitic. The authors of this manuscript have decided to approach "the Paulescu case" from its double aspect, scientific and sociopolitical, to analyze