The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977
Awarded on: 1977-10-13
"for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"
Affiliations:
- The Salk Institute – San Diego, CA, USA
Roger Guillemin
Born: 1924-01-11 in Dijon, France
Gender: male
Field: French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024)
Biography
Roger Charles Louis Guillemin was a French-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.