Roger (Charles Louis) Guillemin

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).

Roger Guillemin (born January 11, 1924 in Dijon, Bourgogne, France) is a neuroendocrinologist who received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones.

Completing his undergraduate work at the Université de Bourgogne (University of Dijon), Guillemin received his M.D. degree from the Medical Faculty at 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. The same year he moved to the United States to join the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine at Houston. In 1970 he started the Laboratory for Neuroendocrinology at the Salk Institute, San Diego where he worked until retirement in 1989.

Guillemin is married with six children. Since retirement Guillemin himself has utilized his adeptness with computers in creating art, some of which ending up on paper or canvas.