Awards & Winners

Roger Guillemin

Date of Birth 11-January-1924
Place of Birth Dijon
(France, Côte-d'Or)
Nationality United States of America, France
Also know as Roger Charles Louis Guillemin, Dr. Roger Guillemin
Profession Physician, Scientist, Chemist
Roger Charles Louis Guillemin 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.

Awards by Roger Guillemin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Roger Guillemin.

1977


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain)

1976


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For demonstrating the presence of a new class of hormones, made in the brain, that regulate the function of the pituitary gland, thereby making possible improved diagnosis and treatment of numerous endocrine disorders.)

1975


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For determination of the structure of hypothalamic hormones, their synthesis, and elucidation of their role in endocrine function\u2014work which is considered the decisive physiological and biochemical evidence of neurohormones in mammals. Such research has established the fact that the pituitary gland and certain other glands of the endocrine system are regulated by the brain through the hypothalamus.)

1974


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For outstanding work on the identification, synthesis and clinical application of hypothalamic releasing hormones.)