Bernardo Houssay



         


Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 - September 21, 1971) was an Argentinian 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.

Bernardo Houssay is interred in the Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina.


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