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Bernardo Houssay | |
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| Born | Bernardo Alberto Houssay April 10, 1887 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | September 21, 1971 (aged 84)[1] Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Known for | Glucose[1] |
| Spouse | María Angélica Catán[2][3] |
| Awards | Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1947) James Cook Medal (1948) |
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| Fields | Physiology, endocrinology |
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.[1][4][5][6]
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