Roger Charles Louis Guillemin ( born January 11 , 1924 in Dijon , Bourgogne , France ) received the National Medal of Science in 1976 , and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones . Roger Charles Louis Guillemin ( born January 11 , 1924 in Dijon , Bourgogne , France ) 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 .