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Roger Guillemin
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Roger Guillemin

1924 – 2024 · aged 100

French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024)

Born
11 Jan 1924 · Dijon
Died
21 Feb 2024 · San Diego

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 115 years
  1. 11 Jan 1924BornBorn in Dijon
  2. 1960RoleDirector of Research at CNRS
  3. 1974AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  4. 1975AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  5. 1976AwardNational Medal of Science
  6. 1977AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Chicago
  7. 1977AwardDickson Prize in Medicine
  8. 1977AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Dijon
  9. 1977AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  10. 1984AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Manitoba
  11. 1986AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII
  12. 1989AwardHonorary doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
  13. 1996AwardHonorary doctorate at the Laval University
  14. 1998AwardHonorary doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University
  15. 21 Feb 2024DiedDied in San Diego

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1924 – 2024).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʒe ʃaʁl lwi ɡijmɛ̃]; January 11, 1924 – February 21, 2024) 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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