Died 2024-02-21.
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Roger Guillemin
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.
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science · French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024) · endocrinologist · biochemist · university teacher · neuroscientist · physician · physiologist · also Roger Guillemin, Guillemin
Born 11 January 1924 · Died 21 February 2024 · Q242169
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2024· 2 entries
And died in San Diego, California the following month, on February 21
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2015).
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2007· 1 entry
Guillemin was an interim president of the Salk Institute
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2000· 1 entry
Published “Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures” in Spine — cited 11,001 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University (1998).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1996).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Manitoba (1984).
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1977· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Chicago (1977).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Dijon (1977).
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Awarded Dickson Prize in Medicine (1977).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1977).
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1976· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1976).
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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
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1974).
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1970· 1 entry
Joined the Salk Institute in La Jolla, where he was the head of the Laboratories for Neuroendocrinology until retirement in 1989
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1969· 1 entry
As government funding was about to be cut off, Roger Burgus from Guillemin's team made a breakthrough, identifying the thyrotropin-releasing factor (TRF), which controls the thyroid gland
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1965· 1 entry
Became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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1960· 1 entry
Career landmark: Director of Research at CNRS (1960).
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1954· 1 entry
Guillemin observed that pituitary cells did not produce hormones unless hypothalamic cells were present, supporting the theory that the hypothalamus controls the pituitary through hormones, dubbed releasing factors
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-01-11.
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