Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1947
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Bernardo Houssay

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1947
for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar
Citizenship
Argentina Argentina
Languages
Spanish
date of birth
4/10/1887
place of birth
Buenos Aires
date of death
9/21/1971
place of death
Buenos Aires
Lived
84 years
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/5/1947
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/20/1943
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1944
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1940
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/27/1928
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Academia Argentina de Letras
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine
  • Academia Nacional de Ciencias Morales y Políticas
employer
  • University of Buenos Aires
occupation
  • physician
  • pharmacist
  • chemist
  • biologist
  • entomologist
doctoral student
  • Luis Federico Leloir
  • Juan Carlos Fasciolo
educated at
  • Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Buenos Aires
  • National School of Buenos Aires
field of work
  • physiology
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