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Bernardo Houssay
Argentine physician (–)
Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, – September 21, ) was an Argentinephysiologist. Houssay was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitaryhormones 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.[1][4][5][6]
Biography
Early life
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born April 10, , in Buenos Aires.
His parents Albert and Clara Houssay were immigrants from France. A precocious youngster, he was admitted to the Pharmacy School at the University of Buenos Aires at 14 years of age and subsequently to the Faculty of Medicine of the same university at 17 years old and was there from to While a third-year medical student, Houssay took up a post as a research and teaching assistant in the Chair of Physiology.
Career
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