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2018 -1 -ES 01 -KA 229 -050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION Nicolae Paulescu (1869 -1931) The scientist who discovered insulin

2018 -1 -ES 01 -KA 229 -050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION 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.

2018 -1 -ES 01 -KA 229 -050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION 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.

2018 -1 -ES 01 -KA 229 -050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION In honor of Nicolae Paulescu In 1993, the Institute of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases in Bucharest was named in his honor.

2018 -1 -ES 01 -KA 229 -050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION 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

2018 -1 -ES 01 -KA 229 -050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION Made by the Romanian Team Ø Iordache Catalin Ø Cojanu Elena Ø Posirca Gina Thank you for watching this!