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The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded, according to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of literature.
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 10, 1887. He was the son of Albert Houssay, a lawyer, who also worked at the National College of Buenos Aires teaching literature. His mother was Clara Laffont. Houssay’s parents were originally both from France and had migrated to Argentina just before he was born. Houssay showe...
At medical school, it was endocrinology that sparked Houssay’s interest. This is the branch of medicine concerned with the system of glands in our bodies that secrete hormones. Houssay was especially fascinated with how the pituitary gland functioned. This is a pea-sized structure located at the base of the brain. Indeed, his doctoral thesis in 191...
In 1910, Houssay became a professor at the University of Buenos Aires School of Veterinary Medicine. Three years later he took a position at Alvear Hospital in Buenos Aires. In 1915 he also became laboratory director of the government experimental pathology laboratories. Houssay returned to the University of Buenos Aires as a professor of physiolog...
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel , which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry , physics , literature ...
For his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar, Houssay earned the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine, sharing it with Carl and Gerty Cori for their work on glycogen metabolism.
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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.
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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 ...
