Roger Guillemin

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Roger Guillemin (born January 11, 1924 in Dijon, Bourgogne, France) is a neuroendocrinologist who 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 Montréal, Québec, 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 physiology 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 started the Laboratory for Neuroendocrinology at the Salk Institute, San Diego where he worked until retirement in 1989. He, and Andrew V. Schally, first described the structure of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH).

Guillemin is married with six children. A very artistically inclined family, his wife and five of the children are accomplished musicians and artists. Since retirement Guillemin himself has utilized his adeptness with computers in creating art, some of which ending up on paper or canvas.

[edit] Books

Nicholas Wade. The Nobel Duel.
Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar (1979). Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts, Sage, Los Angeles, USA.