| Administrative History | Roger Guillemin (b. 1924), neuroendocrinologist, 'entered medical school in Dijon in 1943 and received the M.D. degree from the Faculté de Médecine of Lyon in 1949'. His autobiography notes that he undertook his medical training during the Nazi occupation of France in the early 1940s. Guillemin obtained a Ph.D. degree in physiology in 1953 from the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal. Guillemin then 'joined the staff of the Department of Physiology at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as a young assistant professor. He taught physiology at Baylor College of Medicine for 18 years, until 1970'. In 1970, Guillemin went to The Salk Institute to establish the Laboratories for Neuroendocrinology.
Guillemin 'served on several advisory groups (Study Sections) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)', 'as a member of the Council of the American Endocrine Society from 1969 - 1973'. He was 'elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in 1974 [and] a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976'.
Guillemin has 'received The Gairdner International Award, Toronto, Canada, 1974; The Dickson Prize in Medicine, The University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1976; the Passano Award in the Medical Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, 1976; the Lasker Award in Basic Sciences, New York, 1975; ... the National Medal of Science presented by the US President' and the '1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that laid the foundation for brain hormone research'.
Guillemin has 'received honorary degrees, from the University of Rochester (D.Sc.), 1976; the University of Chicago (D.Sc.), 1977; and the Légion d'Honneur from the French government in 1973'.
He has been 'asked to deliver numerous memorial lectures, in particular the Harvey Lecture, The Rockefeller University, New York, 1974; the Jane Russell Wilhelmi Memorial Lecture, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1976; the Geoffrey W. Harris Memorial Lecture, International Congress of Endocrinology, Hamburg, Germany, 1976; The Gregory Pincus Memorial Lecture, The Laurentian Hormone Conference, 1976; and The Herbert M. Evans, Memorial Lecture, University of California in San Francisco, 1977'.
He retired in 1989.
Cited from Wilhelm Odelberg, ed., 'Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1977', [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1978, taken from 'Nobelprize.org' web page 'Roger Guillemin – Autobiography', http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1977/guillemin-autobio.html (2005) and 'Salk Institute for Biological Studies' web page 'Faculty, Roger Guillemin, Guillemin Laboratory', http://www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty/details.php?id=25 (2005).
Nicholas Chi - Kwan Ling, (b. 1940), was Assistant Research Professor in The Salk Institute (from 1974). Ling received a B.S. Degree in Chemistry from San Jose State University in 1964 and a Ph.D. Degree in Organic Chemistry from Stanford University in 1969. Ling is senior director of peptide chemistry for Neurocrine Biosciences. He was awarded the Sidney H. Inghar Distinguished Service award of The Endocrine Society in 1994.
Taken from Ling's CV and the 'SignOnSanDiego.com' web page 'On the move', http://crossword.uniontrib.com/news/business/20030416-9999_1b16move.html (2005).
'The Salk Institute was established in the 1960s by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine. His goal was to establish an institute that would explore questions about the basic principles of life. He wanted to make it possible for biologists and others to work together in a collaborative environment that would encourage them to consider the wider implications of their discoveries for the future of humanity'.
Cited from the 'Salk Institute for Biological Studies' web page 'a brief history and overview of the salk institute', http://www.salk.edu/about/history/ (2005). |
| Description | Correspondence, regarding the sending of samples for scientific experiments; talking about their respective research and work, reading each other's respective manuscripts; exchanging scientific results and mentioning the various meetings and conferences Kosterlitz attended.
Includes brief correspondence with Dr Nicholas Chi - Kwan Ling, The Salk Institute, dated November 1976.
Letter, dated 22 February 1977, from Guillemin to Dr Konrad F. Springer, Germany, saying he does not think that there should be a monograph or journal on the endorphins at that time, as work on endorphins is just beginning.
Letter, dated 17 October 1977, from Kosterlitz, congratulates Guillemin on his receiving of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Correspondence between 1977 and 1978 relate to Kosterlitz's and Hanna's visit to the US, for the occasion of the 'symposium organized by the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation' held in Vancouver, 23 - 25 January 1978. Relates to their visit to Guilemin at The Salk Institute.
File includes a copy of Ling's Curriculum Vitae ('dated material - October, 1978'). Letter, dated 6 November 1978, from Walter Eckhard, Chairman of the Faculty, explaining that Ling is being considered for promotion to the rank of Associate Research Professor at The Salk Institute and asking Kosterlitz to provide his opinion on Ling. N.B. ?remains closed under data protection legislation.
Letter, dated 18 May 1979, from Kosterlitz, says that Les Iversen and Kosterlitz would like to nominate Guillemin for Foreign Membership of the Royal Society of London.
Includes a small card, which says: 'The Laboratories for Neuroendocrinology founded by Roger Guillemin at The Salk Institute in 1970 will cease to exist there on March 1, 1989. On March 1 Dr. Guillemin and his laboratory staff will move to The Whittier Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology. Dr. Nicholas Ling will head the Department of Molecular Endocrinology; Dr. Andrew Baird the Department of Molecular and Cellular Growth Biology. Dr. Guillemin will occupy the Chair of Distinguished Scientist'. The card provides their new mailing address and other details.
Original file annotated, 'also Dr. Ling'.
There are a number of gaps in the correspondence: between July - October 1976; November 1976 and February 1977; February - November 1978; November 1978 and February 1979, and March 1979 and May 1981. |