Bernado Houssay Facts
Bernado Houssay Facts
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| Houssay was an ambitious learner, and was admitted to pharmacy school in Buenos Aires at only fourteen years of age; he entered the medical school of his university at seventeen. |
| He started a private practice as the assistant physician and became the Chief Physician in 1915. |
| At age twenty, he was a researcher and teacher for the university's chair of physiology. |
| After he received his doctorate he took the position of Professor of Physiology at the University. |
| He was appointed to the chair of physiology at the University of Buenos Aires Medicine School in 1919. |
| He made the physiology program at the University of Buenos Aires Medicine School into a very highly decorated and respected research department until a military dictatorship kept him from his posts because of his liberal ideas. |
| His discoveries stimulated the study of hormonal feedback control mechanisms which is very important to every part of modern endocrinology. |
| He was also the director of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council from 1957 until he died. |
| Houssay received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947. |
| One of his disciples became the "father" of Brazilian neurophysiology. |
| Houssay wrote one of Latin America's most influential textbooks, Human Physiology. |
| His textbook has been used in almost every medical school on the continent. |
| He has published more than 600 scientific papers and books. |
| He was a very active leader and promoter of scientific research advancement in Argentina as well as Latin America. |
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