Nicolae Constantin Paulescu was a Romanian physiologist and a professor of medicine, most famous for discovering insulin, in 1921. For this discovery, two years later, two other scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine; unfortunately, only later were Paulescu’s merits fully recognized. He was also, with A. C. Cuza, the co-founder of the National Christian Union and later, of the National-Christian Defense League in Romania. Nichifor Crainic, the principal ideologist of Orthodoxism, paid homage to Paulescu, by calling him "the founder of Christian nationalism" and "the most complete and most normative eminent doctrinaire of our nationalism.
Nicolae Constantin Paulescu was a Romanian physiologist and a professor of medicine, most famous for discovering insulin, in 1921. For this discovery, two years later, two other scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine; unfortunately, only later were Paulescu’s merits fully recognized. He was also, with A. C. Cuza, the co-founder of the National Christian Union and later, of the National-Christian Defense League in Romania. Nichifor Crainic, the principal ideologist of Orthodoxism, paid homage to Paulescu, by calling him "the founder of Christian nationalism" and "the most complete and most normative eminent doctrinaire of our nationalism.
