BIOLOGIST

Roger Guillemin

1924 - 2024

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Guillemin is the 57th most popular biologist (down from 50th in 2019), the 586th most popular biography from France (up from 671st in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Roger Guillemin ranks 57 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Richet, Lazzaro Spallanzani, André Michel Lwoff, Karl Ernst von Baer, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and François Jacob. After him are Theodor Schwann, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Jean Dausset, Gregory Winter, and Linda B. Buck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Roger Guillemin ranks 22. Before him are Jean-François Lyotard, Benoit Mandelbrot, Maurice Jarre, Sarah Vaughan, Georges Charpak, and Lauren Bacall. After him are Jacques Le Goff, Sergei Parajanov, Paul Feyerabend, Lys Assia, S. R. Nathan, and Billy Wright. Among people deceased in 2024, Roger Guillemin ranks 29. Before him are Françoise Hardy, Louis Gossett Jr., Arnold Rüütel, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Paul Alexander, and Thomas P. Stafford. After him are Jim Simons, Leon Cooper, Herbert Kroemer, Dési Bouterse, Alice Munro, and Olivia Hussey.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Guillemin ranks 586 out of 6,770. Before him are France Gall (1947), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Carlos Gardel (1890), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), Gaston Bachelard (1884), and Yves Klein (1928). After him are Mireille Darc (1938), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Daniel Auber (1782), Louis, Grand Condé (1621), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Roger Guillemin ranks 10. Before him are Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), and François Jacob (1920). After him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Jean Dausset (1916), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), René Lesson (1794), and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772).

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