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Roger Guillemin, French-American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)

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Roger Guillemin

French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024)

Roger Charles Louis Guillemin 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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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…
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