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Bernardo Houssay

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Argentine physician (1887-1971)

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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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1966Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise
1963Banting Medal
1959doctor honoris causa from the University of Alger
1959honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier
1957Guggenheim Fellowship
1951Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
1949honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
1948James Cook Medal
1947Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1947Baly Medal
1946doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon
1935doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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

Country
Argentina
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1887 to 1971 · aged 84
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