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Bernardo Houssay
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentinian 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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science · Argentinian physician (1887–1971) · physician · chemist · pharmacist · entomologist · biologist · also Bernardo Houssay, Bernardo Alberto Houssay, Bernard Houssay, Houssay
Born 10 April 1887 · Died 21 September 1971 · Q237160
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1996· 1 entry
The Prefectura Naval Argentina acquired a ketch-rigged research vessel from CONICET, renaming her Dr
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1971· 1 entry
Died 1971-09-21.
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1966).
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1963· 1 entry
Won Banting Medal (1963).
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier (1959).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Alger (1959).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1957).
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1951).
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1949).
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1948· 1 entry
Won James Cook Medal (1948).
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1947· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1947).
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Won Baly Medal (1947).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Was prolonged until 1955 when Peron was ousted from power and Houssay was reinstated in the University of Buenos Aires, where he remained until he died
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1940· 1 entry
An International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1941, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1943, and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1944
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1935).
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1919· 1 entry
Houssay was appointed as the chair of physiology at the University of Buenos Aires Medicine School, serving there until 1943
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1913· 1 entry
Became Chief Physician at the Alvear Hospital, and in 1915, became Chief of the Section of Experimental Pathology at the National Public Health Laboratories in Buenos Aires
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-04-10.
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