What is Roger Guillemin?
[[File:Roger Guillemin.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Roger Guillemin]] '''Roger Charles Louis Guillemin''' (11 January 1924 &ndash; 21 February 2024) was a French-American neuroscientist who received the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1976, and [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1977 for his work on [[neurohormone]]s. He was born in [[Dijon]], [[Côte-d'Or]], [[France]]. Guillemin [[Centenarian|turned 100]] on January 11, 2024,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salk Distinguished Professor Emeritus Roger Guillemin, Nobel Prize laureate, celebrates 100th birthday |url=https://www.salk.edu/news-release/salk-distinguished-professor-emeritus-roger-guillemin-nobel-prize-laureate-celebrates-100th-birthday/ |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=Salk Institute for Biological Studies |language=en}}</ref> and died in San Diego, California the following month, on February 21.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/science/roger-guillemin-dead.html Roger Guillemin, 100, Nobel-Winning Scientist Stirred by Rivalries, Dies] {{paywall}}</ref> == Education == Completing his undergraduate work at the [[University of Burgundy]], Guillemin received his M.D. degree from the Medical Faculty at [[University of Lyon|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 1953. The same year he moved to the [[United States]] to join the faculty at [[Baylor College of Medicine]] at [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. In 1965, he became a naturalized [[citizen]] of the United States. In 1970 he started a [[laboratory]], [[San Diego, California|San Diego]] where he worked for neuro-[[endocrinology]] until retirement in 1989. Guillemin and [[Andrew V. Schally]] discovered the structures of [[TRH]] and [[GnRH]] in separate laboratories. ==Books== * Nicholas Wade (1981). ''The Nobel Duel'', Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY. * Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar (1979). ''Laboratory Life'', Sage, Los Angeles, USA.