biography
| name: |
Guillemin, Roger (Charles Louis)
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pronunciation:
[geelmin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Neuroendocrinologist, born in Dijon, France. He was an anti-Nazi resistance fighter in France during World War 2, then received his MD from Lyons (1949). He emigrated to the University of Montreal (1951–3), then went to the USA to join Baylor University (Texas) (1953–70). He collaborated with pioneer endocrinologist Andrew Schally on hypothalamic hormones which regulate the pituitary (1955–62), then continued independently at Baylor and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1970–89), where he isolated additional pituitary hormones and investigated the action of endorphins. For his many contributions to neuroendocrinology, he shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with his former colleague Schally. He continued his work on brain chemistry and hypothalamic hormones at the Whitter Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology, La Jolla (1989). |
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