Michael Somogyi

Dr. Michael Somogyi (March 7, 1883 – July 21, 1971) was a Hungarian-American professor of biochemistry at Washington University and the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. He prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October 1922. Somogyi later showed that excessive insulin makes diabetes unstable in the Chronic Somogyi rebound to which he gave his name.

Michael Somogyi

Dr. Michael Somogyi (March 7, 1883 – July 21, 1971) was a Hungarian-American professor of biochemistry at Washington University and the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. He prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October 1922. Somogyi later showed that excessive insulin makes diabetes unstable in the Chronic Somogyi rebound to which he gave his name.