Bernardo Houssay

Bernardo Houssay

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1947)

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Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who studied the role of the anterior pituitary gland in sugar metabolism. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar. He was affiliated with the Institute for Biology and Experimental Medicine in Argentina.