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Bernardo Houssay
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Argentine physician (1887–1971)
Bernardo Houssay was an Argentine physician and physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for his discoveries about how the pituitary gland regulates blood sugar levels. His work was groundbreaking for understanding how the body controls glucose, which has important implications for treating diabetes and other metabolic diseases.
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- Born
- 10 Apr 1887
- Died
- 21 Sep 1971
- Works
- 22
Top works
- The role of the universities in face of the material and moral changes brought about in contemporary society by scientific and technological progress
- Acción de la tiroides sobre el metabolismo de los hidratos de carbono y en la diabetes (résumen de los trabajos de 1939 a 1949)
- Lipoma retroperitoneal
- Las relaciones funcionales entre la hipófisis y el páncreas
- Escritos y discursos
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1947
“for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bernard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Place of birth
- Buenos Aires
- Place of death
- Buenos Aires
- Occupation
- biologist
- Educated at
- National School of Buenos Aires
- Employer
- University of Buenos Aires
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Doctoral student
- Luis Federico Leloir
- Field of work
- physiology
- Image
- Bernado Houssay.JPG
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Bernardo Houssay
- date of birth
- 1887-04-10
- date of death
- 1971-09-21
- place of burial
- La Chacarita Cemetery
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- student
- Luis Federico Leloir
- P6944
- Bernardo Houssay
- name in native language
- Bernardo Alberto Houssay
- P8168
- Gourfaleur
- interested in
- physiology
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Encyclopedic overview
Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an Argentine physiologist. Houssay was a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of glucose in animals, sharing the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori. He is the first Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.
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