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Date of Birth
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10-April-1887
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Place of Birth
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Buenos Aires
(Argentina, South America, Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province)
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Nationality
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Argentina
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Also know as
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Dr. Bernardo Houssay, Bernardo Alberto Houssay
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Profession
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Physician, Scientist
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, received one half Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar in animals. He is the first Argentine and Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.
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