Bernardo Houssay Quotes


The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.


Citations

Houssay, Bernardo A. "The Role of the Hypophysis in Carbohydrate Metabolism and in Diabetes." Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, 1964, p. 210.

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Bernardo Houssay
Bernardo Houssay
  • Born: April 10, 1887
  • Died: September 21, 1971
  • Nationality: Argentinian
  • Profession: Scientist

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, was a co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals. He was the first Argentine Nobel laureate in the sciences. He shared the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori, who won for their discoveries regarding the role of glucose in carbohydrate metabolism).