Dr. Roger Guillemin, Distinguished Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Laureate of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, talks about his life and career with Dr. Greg Lemke, Françoise Gilot-Salk Professor at the Salk Institute, for the 2013 Annual Review of Physiology. Dr. Guillemin discusses his childhood and high school education in Dijon, France, and how he and his friends preferred to go underground at the end of their first year of medicine rather than be shipped to Munich to build weapons for the German army. After the war, Dr. Guillemin practiced medicine, then decided follow Hans Selye to his laboratory in Montreal. There he began the research in endocrinology that led him to make discoveries and lay the foundations of the study of brain hormones, eventually winning the Nobel Prize.
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