Roger Guillemin
French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024)
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Roger Guillemin was a French-American neuroscientist who made groundbreaking discoveries about how the brain controls hormones in the body, work that earned him a Nobel Prize in 1977. His research fundamentally changed our understanding of how the brain and body communicate through chemical signals, making him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
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- 1924
- Died
- 2024
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- 2
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- Précis de physiologie humaine
- Production d'agents thérapeutiques par génie génétique
- Hypothalamic control of pituitary functions
- Neural Modulation of Immunity
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Roger Charles Louis Guillemin ( French pronunciation: [ʁɔʒe ʃaʁl lwi ɡijmɛ̃]; January 11, 1924 – February 21, 2024) 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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1924 births2024 deathsAmerican endocrinologistsAmerican men centenariansBaylor College of Medicine physicians and researchersCommanders of the Legion of HonourFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFrench emigrants to the United StatesFrench men centenariansFrench neuroscientistsFrench Nobel laureatesMedical doctors from Dijon