Bernardo Houssay
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1887 – 1971
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Who was Bernardo Houssay?
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, received one half Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar in animals. He is the first Argentine and Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.
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- Born
- Apr 10, 1887
Buenos Aires - Also known as
- Dr. Bernardo Houssay
- Bernardo Alberto Houssay
- Bernardo A. Houssay
- Parents
- Spouses
- Dr. Maria Angelica Catan
(1920/12/22 - 1962/03/12)
- Dr. Maria Angelica Catan
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Argentinian people
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Buenos Aires
Pharmacology
(1901 - 1904) - Doctor of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires
( - 1911)
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Buenos Aires
- Employment
- University of Buenos Aires
- Lived in
- Buenos Aires
(1887/04/10 - 1971/09/21)
- Buenos Aires
- Died
- Sep 21, 1971
Buenos Aires - Resting place
- La Chacarita Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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