Bernardo Alberto Houssay

Born: 1887-04-10 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gender: male

Field: Argentine physician (1887–1971)

Biography

Bernardo Alberto Houssay 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.

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947

Awarded on: 1947-10-23

"for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"

Affiliations:

Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental (Institute for Biology and Experimental Medicine) – Buenos Aires, Argentina

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