- Roger Guillemin
Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (born
January 11 ,1924 inDijon , Bourgogne, France) received theNational Medal of Science in 1976, andNobel prize formedicine in 1977 for his work onneurohormone s.Infobox Scientist
name = Roger Charles Louis Guillemin
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birth_date =January 11 ,1924 (age 84)
birth_place =Dijon ,France
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citizenship = American
nationality =France
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field =Biology ,Neurology
work_institutions =Baylor College of Medicine
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known_for =Neurohormones
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prizes =National Medal of Science ,
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footnotes =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 toMontreal , Quebec, Canada to work withHans Selye at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at theUniversité de Montréal where he received a Ph.D. in 1953. The same year he moved to the United States to join the faculty atBaylor College of Medicine at Houston. In 1965, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1970 he started a laboratory, San Diego where he worked until retirement in 1989.Guillemin and
Andrew V. Schally discovered the structures ofTRH andGnRH in separate laboratories.Guillemin signed along with other Nobel Prize winners a petition requesting that a delegation of the Committee on the Rights of the Children of the
United Nations may visit a Tibetan child who is under house arrest in China since 1995, namelyGendhun Choekyi Nyima , recognized as the 11thPanchen Lama by the 14thDalai Lama ,Tenzin Gyatso .Books
* Nicholas Wade (1981). "The Nobel Duel", Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY.
*Bruno Latour andSteve Woolgar (1979). "Laboratory Life ", Sage, Los Angeles, USA.External links
* [http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1977/guillemin-autobio.html Nobel autobiography]
* [http://www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty/details.php?id=25 Salk Institute faculty page]
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