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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 166,940 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Bernardo Houssay is the 181st most popular physician (down from 160th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Bernardo Houssay ranks 181 out of 726. Before him are Michael Stuart Brown, Dominique Jean Larrey, Joseph Murray, Alexander Bogdanov, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, and Magnus Hirschfeld. After him are Alan Hodgkin, August von Wassermann, Hans Sloane, Werner Haase, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, and Leonid Rogozov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Bernardo Houssay ranks 58. Before him are Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Giovanni Gronchi, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Raoul Walsh, Arnold Zweig, and Boris Karloff. After him are Blaise Cendrars, Josef Harpe, Frederick Fleet, Joseph Bech, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Josef Čapek. Among people deceased in 1971, Bernardo Houssay ranks 36. Before him are Roy O. Disney, Marcel Dupré, Pier Angeli, Violet Jessop, Max Steiner, and Johannes Frießner. After him are John Boyd Orr, Heinz Lammerding, Diane Arbus, Raoul Hausmann, W. O. Bentley, and Georgy Dobrovolsky.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Bernardo Houssay ranks 65 out of 1,154. Before him are Isabel Sarli (1929), Lalo Schifrin (1932), Alberto Ginastera (1916), Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), and Osvaldo Ardiles (1952). After him are Jorge Sampaoli (1960), César Milstein (1927), Tamara Bunke (1937), Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811), Quino (1932), and Gerardo Martino (1962).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Argentina

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

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