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Bernardo Houssay

1887 - 1971

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Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an Argentine physiologist. Houssay was a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernardo Houssay is the 175th most popular physician (up from 181st in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 65th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Bernardo Houssay ranks 175 out of 726. Before him are Albert of Riga, Severo Ochoa, Andrew Schally, Merit-Ptah, Oswald Avery, and Kitasato Shibasaburō. After him are Friedrich Miescher, Robert Knox, August von Wassermann, Engelbert Kaempfer, Michael Stuart Brown, and Joseph Calasanz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Bernardo Houssay ranks 52. Before him are Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Harald Bohr, Violet Jessop, Boris Karloff, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, and Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni. After him are Arnold Zweig, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Hans Oster, Julian Huxley, and Josef Harpe. Among people deceased in 1971, Bernardo Houssay ranks 34. Before him are Donald Winnicott, Jacobo Árbenz, Arne Jacobsen, Lothar Rendulic, Marcel Dupré, and Violet Jessop. After him are Yrjö Väisälä, Max Steiner, Johannes Frießner, Roy O. Disney, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, and Pier Angeli.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Bernardo Houssay ranks 55 out of 1,154. Before him are Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878), Violet Jessop (1887), Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924), Luis Galván (1948), Alberto Granado (1922), and Mauricio Macri (1959). After him are Hugo Gatti (1944), Raimundo Orsi (1901), Guillermo Vilas (1952), Ernesto Laclau (1935), Chris de Burgh (1948), and Ángel Di María (1988).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Argentina

Among physicians born in Argentina, Bernardo Houssay ranks 1. After him are René Favaloro (1923), María Teresa Ferrari (1887), and Cecilia Grierson (1859).

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