Bernardo Houssay

Bernardo Houssay
Born
Bernardo Alberto Houssay

(1887-04-10)April 10, 1887
Buenos Aires, Argentina
DiedSeptember 21, 1971(1971-09-21) (aged 84)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
Known forGlucose
SpouseMaría Angélica Catán
AwardsNobel 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 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.