Bernardo Houssay

Argentine physician (1887-1971) · Argentina · On the map · Doctors · Died at 84

Bernardo Alberto Houssay 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.

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1971Died21 September 19711966Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the WiseAward1963Banting MedalAward1959Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of AlgerAwardHonorary Doctorate of the University of MontpellierAward1957Guggenheim FellowshipAward1951Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of MexicoAwardMore about this1949Honorary Doctorate from the University of StrasbourgAward1948James Cook MedalAward1947Baly MedalAwardNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1946Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of LyonAward1935Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of ParisAward1887Born10 April 1887

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Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise1966

Banting Medal1963

Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Alger1959

Honorary Doctorate of the University of Montpellier1959

Guggenheim Fellowship1957

Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico1951

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Strasbourg1949

James Cook Medal1948

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1947

Baly Medal1947

Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Lyon1946

Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris1935

Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

About this person

He is the first Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.

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Argentina

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