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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
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- 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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5 total works indexed
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,473x
- The Worldwide Prevalence of ADHD: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis
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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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1887 births1971 deaths20th-century Roman CatholicsAcademic staff of the University of Buenos AiresArgentine medical doctorsArgentine Nobel laureatesArgentine people of French descentArgentine physiologistsArgentine Roman CatholicsBurials at La Chacarita CemeteryDiabetologistsForeign associates of the National Academy of Sciences