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Bernardo Houssay
Bernardo Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for discovering the part played by hormones of the pituitary gland in the metabolism of sugar. He was the first Latin American laureate in the sciences, and he founded institutions that shaped scientific research in Argentina, including the national research council, CONICET.
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