Roger Guillemin

Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (born January 11, 1924 in Dijon, Bourgogne, France) received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones. 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 Su... more

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  • Jan 11, 1924 (age 85 years)

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  • Roger Charles Louis Guillemin

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Year Award Award Winner Winning work Notes/Description
  • 1977
  • "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"
  • 1976
  • For demonstrating the presence of a new class of hormones, made in the brain, that regulate the function of the pituitary gland, thereby making possible improved diagnosis and treatment of numerous endocrine disorders.
  • 1975
  • For research that has expanded our knowledge of the interplay between the hypothalamus and the endocrine system.
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