It is the Nobel Prize season, for one week, the Nobel Academy awards the 5 main titles. Burgundy is a land of knowledge and knowledge, but do we really know who our former Burgundian “Nobel” are?
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They are few, our Burgundian “Nobel”, but who are they?
The most recent dates back to … 1977!
Roger-Charles Louis Guillemin
This endocrinologist, received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977. He was born in 1924 in Dijon, and has completed his medical studies at the University of Burgundy in 1943.
He settled in 1948 as a general practitioner in Saint-Seine-l’Abbaye, but became interested in endocrinology and left for Canada for the University of Montreal.
He continued his career in the United States, at the Bayor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) where he taught for 17 years, until 1970. He then went to San Diego, where he participated in the creation of the neuroendocrinology laboratory.
He shared his Nobel Prize in 1977 with Andrzej Wiktor Schally and Rosalyn Yalow for their discoveries on neurohormones.
On the occasion of the Biovision trade fair on April 12, 2005, ten Nobel Prize winners participated in the launch of the Biovision trade fair. Professor Roger GUILLEMIN Physiologist Nobel Prize 1977.
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Romain Rolland
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. Born in Clamecy (Nièvre) on January 29, 1866 and died in Vézelay on December 30, 1944.
From a culture steeped in a passion for art and music (opera, Michelangelo, Scarlatti, Lully, Beethoven, friendship with Richard Strauss) and the cult of heroes, he searched throughout his life for a way to communion between men.
His demand for justice led him to seek peace ” Above the fight “ during and after the First World War.
Gripped by his humanist ideal and his quest for a non-violent world, by his admiration for Leo Tolstoy, a great figure of non-violence, by the philosophies of India (conversations with Rabindranath Tagore and Gandhi), the teaching of Râmakrishna and Vivekananda, by his fascination with ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ (he refers to him in “Clérambault”), then by the “new world” that he hoped to see built in the Soviet Union.
He moved to Vézelay (Yonne) in 1937 to write his memoirs and died in 1944.
French writer Romain Rolland (right) visits Russian novelist and playwright Maxime Gorki (left) during the summer of 1935 in Moscow.
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Louis Renault
He is a jurist, professor of international law, who received the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in 1907 (shared with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta).
Born in Autun on May 21, 1843 and died in Barbizon (Seine-et-Marne) on February 8, 1918, he was admitted to the Faculty of Law of Dijon in 1868, lecturer at the law faculty of Paris in 1873 then professor at the same faculty in 1881 (chair of international law).
From 1890, he was jurisconsult of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He is also a very active member of the Institut de droit international.
The lawyer Louis Renault
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Claude Simon, a child from the Arbois region (Jura)
Although he was not born in Arbois, Claude Simon (1913-2005), Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985, had his family and his origins there.
Claude Simon enters the Library of La Pléiade (ed. Gallimard), which publishes on February 16, 2006 in one volume most of his works. The writer, who died on July 6, 2005 at the age of 91, had himself chosen the texts he wanted to see published in the collection.
Photo dated October 17, 1985 of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Literature Claude Simon in Salses-le-Château.
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