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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernardo Houssay has received more than 154,300 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Bernardo Houssay is the 160th most popular physician (up from 239th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Bernardo Houssay ranks 160 out of 502. Before him are E. Donnall Thomas, George Emil Palade, Fritz Klein, Magnus Hirschfeld, Waldemar Hoven, and Sushruta. After him are Joseph Erlanger, Robin Warren, Michael Stuart Brown, Merit-Ptah, Albert Calmette, and Engelbert Kaempfer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Bernardo Houssay ranks 54. Before him are Violet Jessop, Frederick Fleet, Hans Oster, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Avery Brundage, and Mitsuru Ushijima. After him are Josef Harpe, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, George Pólya, James Paul Moody, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, and Prince Yasuhiko Asaka. Among people deceased in 1971, Bernardo Houssay ranks 36. Before him are Diane Arbus, Pier Angeli, Violet Jessop, Johannes Frießner, Max Steiner, and W. O. Bentley. After him are Mathilde Kschessinska, Edie Sedgwick, Roy O. Disney, Raoul Hausmann, Heinz Lammerding, and Marcel Dupré.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Bernardo Houssay ranks 40 out of 1,019. Before him are Violet Jessop (1887), Alberto Granado (1922), César Pelli (1926), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Reynaldo Bignone (1928), and Alberto Fernández (1959). After him are Luis Monti (1901), Raúl Alfonsín (1927), Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793), Ernesto Laclau (1935), Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924), and Alberto Ginastera (1916).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Argentina

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

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