Roger C.L.
Guillemin
Resident Fellow & Research Professor, Department of Neuroendocrinology
Salk Institute of Biological Studies
1976
Biology
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.
Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on November 22, 1977.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1977