Bernardo Houssay
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
Born: 10, Apr, 1887, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: 21, Sep, 1971, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental (Institute for Biology and Experimental Medicine), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Prize share: 1/2