Roger Guillemin
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Roger Charles Louis Guillemin | |
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 Roger Charles Louis Guillemin | |
| Born | January 11, 1924 |
| Nationality | France |
| Citizenship | United States[1] |
| Alma mater | Université de Montréal Université de Bourgogne |
| Known for | Neurohormones |
| Awards | National Medal of Science, Nobel Prize (1977) Dickson Prize (1977) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology Neurology |
| Institutions | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Doctoral students | Wylie Vale |
Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (born January 11, 1924) is a French-born American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
Biography[edit]
Completing his undergraduate work at the University of Burgundy, Guillemin received his M.D. degree from the Medical Faculty at Lyon in 1949, and went to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to work with Hans Selye at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the Université de Montréal where he received a Ph.D. in 1953. The same year he moved to the United States to join the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine at Houston. In 1965, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1970 he helped to set up the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California where he worked until retirement in 1989.
Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally discovered the structures of TRH and GnRH in separate laboratories. The process of this scientific discovery at Guillemin's laboratory is the subject of a study by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, published as Laboratory Life.[2]
Guillemin signed along with other Nobel Prize winners a petition requesting a delegation of the Committee on the Rights of the Children of the United Nations to visit a Tibetan child who is under house arrest in China since 1995, namely Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, recognized as the 11th Panchen Lama by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.
Awards and honors[edit]
- National Academy of Sciences, 1974
- Gairdner Foundation International Award, 1974
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, 1975
- Dickson Prize in Medicine, 1976
- Passano Award in Medical Sciences, 1976
- National Medal of Science, 1976
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1977
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1977
References[edit]
- ^ Schlessinger, Bernard S; Schlessinger, June H. (1996). The who's who of Nobel Prize winners, 1901–1995. Oryx Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-89774-899-5.
- ^ Latour, Bruno; Woolgar, Steve (1986). Laboratory Life. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02832-3.
Further reading[edit]
- Wade, Nicholas (1981). The Nobel Duel. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-14981-5.
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- 1924 births
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Living people
- People from Dijon
- Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
- French Nobel laureates
- American endocrinologists
- French emigrants to the United States
- National Medal of Science laureates
- Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur
- French neuroscientists
- Université de Montréal alumni
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Baylor College of Medicine physicians and researchers
- Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- University of Burgundy alumni
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- People with acquired American citizenship
