1. Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist.
13 Facts About Bernardo Houssay
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Bernardo Houssay is the first Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born April 10,1887, in Buenos Aires.
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In 1919, Bernardo Houssay was appointed as the chair of physiology at the University of Buenos Aires Medicine School, serving there until 1943.
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Bernardo Houssay transformed and directed the department into a highly respected research department in experimental physiology and medicine of international class.
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In that year the military dictatorship deprived him of his university posts, due to his liberal political ideas and Bernardo Houssay was forced to re-establish his research lines and staff at a privately funded Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental.
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Bernardo Houssay worked in many fields of physiology, but his main contribution was experimental investigation of the role of the anterior hypophysis gland in the metabolism of carbohydrates, particularly in diabetes mellitus.
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Bernardo Houssay demonstrated in the 1930s the diabetogenic effect of anterior hypophysis extracts and the decrease in diabetes severity with anterior hypophysectomy.
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Bernardo Houssay wrote with them the most influential textbook of Human Physiology in Latin America, in Spanish and Portuguese, which, since 1950 has been published in successive editions and used in almost all medical schools of the continent.
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Bernardo Houssay published more than 600 scientific papers and several specialized books.
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Besides the Nobel, Bernardo Houssay won many distinctions and awards from the Universities of Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Paris, and 15 other universities, as well as the Dale Medal of the Society for Endocrinology in 1960.
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Bernardo Houssay was 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.
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Bernardo Houssay was elected a Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1940, an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1941, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1943, and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1944.