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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 .
Dr. Houssay is the author of over 500 papers and of several books. 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.
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.
Lived 1887 - 1971. 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. He was the first Latin American and Argentine to receive the Nobel Prize.
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.
May 18, 2018 · HOUSSAY, BERNARDO ALBERTO (b, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10 April 1887; d. Buenos Aires. 21 September 1971) physiology, pharmacology, medicine. Houssay was one of the most prominent and influential Latin American scientists of the twentieth century.
Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1947. The Role of the Hypophysis in Carbohydrate Metabolism and in Diabetes. The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.
Shortly after the discovery of insulin, Argentinian science prodigy Bernardo Houssay elucidated the important role of the anterior pituitary, also called the adenohypophysis, in carbohydrate metabolism.
Sep 22, 1971 · BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 21—Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay, whose discovery of the role of pituitary hormones in sugar metabolism won him the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947, died today at his home...
The pituitary gland influences a myriad of physiologic functions with extraordinary elegance. Shortly after the discovery of insulin, Argentinian science prodigy Bernardo Houssay elucidated the important role of the anterior pituitary, also called the adenohypophysis, in carbohydrate metabolism.
