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Bernardo Houssay
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who received (with Carl and Gerty Cori) the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals.
Life
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born on April 10, 1887, in Buenos Aires, to a French couple who had immigrated to Argentina, Dr. Albert and Clara Houssay. 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 Medical School of the same University ...
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