Bernardo Houssay
1887 – 1971 · aged 84
Argentine physician (1887–1971)
- Born
- 10 Apr 1887 · Buenos Aires
- Died
- 21 Sept 1971 · Buenos Aires
Life timeline
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- 10 Apr 1887BornBorn in Buenos Aires
- 1935AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- 1946AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon
- 1947AwardBaly Medal
- 1947AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1948AwardJames Cook Medal
- 1949AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
- 1951AwardHonorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 1957AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
- 1959AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Alger
- 1959AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier
- 1963AwardBanting Medal
- 1966AwardGrand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise
- 21 Sept 1971DiedDied in Buenos Aires
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1887 – 1971).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
Biography
Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an Argentinian 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.
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