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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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He has won many prizes ranging in time from that of the...
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This work, done in 1930, showed that: (a) the anterior lobe...
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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.
Sep 17, 2024 · Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist and corecipient, with Carl and Gerty Cori, of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He was noted for discovering how pituitary hormones regulate the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals.
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He has won many prizes ranging in time from that of the National Academy of Sciences, Buenos Aires, in 1923, to the Dale Medal of the Society of Endocrinology (London) in 1960.
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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...
He was granted the Nobel Prize in 1947 for this reason and because of numerous studies elucidating various details connected with the interactions of hormones and their effects on how the body uses sugars. The specific reasons why all of his studies were so meaningful to endocrinology are highly technical, but they are summed up nicely in the ...
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This work, done in 1930, showed that: (a) the anterior lobe of the hypophysis has an important part in the physiological control of metabolism; (b) the hypophysis is a factor conditioning the severity of diabetes; (c) the injection of anterior lobe of the hypophysis has a diabetogenic effect.
