Roger Guillemin
Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (born January 11, 1924 in Dijon , France ) is a French -American biochemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He did important work on the hypothalamus and on thyroid liberin .
Life
Guillemin began studying medicine at the University of Dijon in 1943 and graduated in 1949. He then went to the University of Montreal with a small scholarship from Hans Selye , whom he had met at a lecture on hormonal regulation in the organism in Paris. With his scientific endocrinological work there, he received his Ph. D. in Physiology in 1953 . He then went to the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston as an assistant professor . Together with Andrew Victor Schallyhe discovered the formation of peptide hormones in the brain and tried to decipher the chemical structure of CR hormones , but failed (the structure was not deciphered until 1981). They then focused on other hypothalamic hormones. They later became rivals for years in research and in the struggle for the Nobel Prize, which Nicholas Wade processed into his book The Nobel Duel in 1981 . He also taught physiology at Baylor College of Medicine until 1970.
In 1970 he was involved in setting up the endocrinology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla , where he worked and researched until his retirement in 1989. He and his team discovered somatostatin there . He discovered - like Andrew Victor Schally at the same time in 1969 in another scientific institution - the structures of thyreoliberine (TRH) and GnRH . In 1977 they jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Guillemin's work at the Salk Institute formed the basis of a well-known case study on social science research published in 1979 : Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar .
Guillemin is married and has six children.
Awards and honors (selection)
- 1974: Admission to the National Academy of Sciences
- 1974: Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1975: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1976: Passano Award in Medical Sciences
- 1976: National Medal of Science for Biology
- 1977: Nobel Prize in Medicine "for her discoveries about the production of peptide hormones in the brain", together with Andrew Victor Schally
- 1977: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1977: Dickson Prize in Medicine
- 1984: Admission to the Legion of Honor (since 2015 Commandeur)
literature
via Roger Charles Louis Guillemin
- Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar: Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts , Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1979, ISBN 0-8039-0993-4
- Nicholas Wade: The Nobel Duel: Two scientists' 21-year race to win the world's most coveted research prize , Garden City, NY, 1981, ISBN 0-385-14981-6
- Gisela Baumgart: Guillemin, Roger Charles. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 517.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1977 award of Roger Charles Louis Guillemin
- Page about Guillemin at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Roger Guillemin: Control of pituitary hormone secretion. In: Recent Progr. Hormone Res. Volume 20, 1964, pp. 89-130.
- ^ Roger Charles Louis Guillemin - Britannica Online Encyclopedia Part 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillemin, Roger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guillemin, Roger Charles Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-American biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dijon |