Bernardo Houssay

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Bernardo Houssay

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1947)
James Cook Medal (1948)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology, endocrinology

Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an

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.[1][4][5][6]

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Biography

Early life

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born April 10, 1887, 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 1904 to 1910. While a third-year medical student, Houssay took up a post as a research and teaching assistant in the Chair of Physiology.

Career

After graduating, he quickly developed and presented his

Veterinary Medicine. Simultaneously, he started a private practice as an assistant physician at the municipal hospital of Buenos Aires. In 1913, he became Chief Physician at the Alvear Hospital, and in 1915, became Chief of the Section of Experimental Pathology
at the National Public Health Laboratories in Buenos Aires.

In 1919, Houssay was appointed as the chair of physiology at the

Peronist government in 1945, was prolonged until 1955 when Peron was ousted from power and Houssay was reinstated in the University of Buenos Aires, where he remained until he died. From 1957, he was also director of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council
.

Houssay worked in many fields of physiology, but his main contribution was experimental investigation of the role of the anterior hypophysis gland in the

diabetes mellitus. Houssay demonstrated in the 1930s the diabetogenic effect of anterior hypophysis extracts and the decrease in diabetes severity with anterior hypophysectomy. These discoveries stimulated the study of hormonal feedback control mechanisms which are central to all aspects of modern endocrinology. This work was recognized by the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine in 1947.

Houssay's many disciples along his years of activity became also influential themselves as they spread around the world; such as

Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Paris, and 15 other universities, as well as the Dale Medal of the Society for Endocrinology
in 1960.

Houssay was also very active as a scientific leader and promoter of the advancement of scientific research and medical education, in Argentina as well as in Latin America. Houssay was elected a Member of the United States

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1943,[1] and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1944.[9]

Legacy

Tributes

On 8 April 2013, Google celebrated Bernardo Alberto Houssay's 126th Birthday with a doodle.[12]

References

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  2. ^ "Bernardo Houssay - Biography, Facts and Pictures".
  3. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947".
  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 Carl Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  5. PMID 1855459
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  6. PMID 4882480
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  7. ^ "Bernardo Houssay". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  8. ^ "Bernardo Alberto Houssay". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  9. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  10. ^ Amendolara, Ignacio; Mey, Carlos J. "MOV-01 GC "Dr Bernardo Houssay"". Historia y Arqueología Marítima (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Fundación Histarmar. Archived from the original on 2022-09-28. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  11. ^ Warmflash, David; Denmark, Bonnie (2017). "Bernardo Houssay: Pioneer in Endocrinology". New York, NY: VisionLearning Inc. Archived from the original on 2023-03-20. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  12. ^ "Bernardo Alberto Houssay's 126th Birthday". www.google.com. Retrieved 2023-04-09.

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