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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.
During his lifetime Bernardo Alberto Houssay not only achieved outstanding distinction by his prolific and original investigations which in 1947 brought him the award of the Nobel Prize, but late in life he became a cultural leader against dictatorship and an inspiration, in the struggle for freedom, which went far beyond the boundaries of his ...
A 1947 Nobel Prize winner, Bernardo Alberto Houssay is known for his research on the role that pituitary hormones play in sugar metabolism, which helped towards providing an effective treatment for diabetes.
Bernardo Alberto Houssay (10 April 1887 – 21 September 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 has worked in almost every field of physiology, having a special interest in the endocrine glands. He has made a lifelong study of the hypophysis and his most important discovery concerns the role of the anterior lobe of the hypophysis in carbohydrate metabolism and the onset of diabetes.
Bernardo Alberto Houssay (born April 10, 1887, Buenos Aires, Arg.—died Sept. 21, 1971, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine physiologist and corecipient, with Carl and Gerty Cori, of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947. Born: 10 April 1887, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Died: 21 September 1971, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Affiliation at the time of the award: Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental (Institute for Biology and Experimental Medicine), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
