Bernardo Houssay was an Argentinian Physiologist born on April 10, 1887. He is best known for his work in the field of endocrinology, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1947. He was also a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the director of the Institute of Physiology. His net worth, biography, age, height, family and career updates are available online.
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Remembered for his research in the fields of endocrinology and physiology, this Argentine-born scientist received the 1947 Nobel Prize for his work on pituitary regulation of glucose in animals.
He began attending the University of Buenos Aires' pharmacy program when he was just fourteen years old; at age seventeen, he entered the same university's medical school. He later chaired his alma mater's physiology department.
He shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with biochemists Carl and Gerty Cori. He was both the first Latin American and first Argentine recipient of a Nobel Prize for science.
He grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as the son of French emigrants named Clara and Albert Houssay.
He and Luis Leloir were both Nobel Prize-winning, Argentine-French scientists.
