Bernardo Alberto Alberto HOUSSAY

Background

HOUSSAY, Bernardo was born on April 10, 1887 in Buenos Aires. Son of Doctor Alberto Houssay and Clara Laffont.

Education

Educated Colegio Británico. Graduate in Pharmacy, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1904, Doctor of Medicine, 1911. Dr. honoris causa, univs. of Paris, Lyons, Geneva (Switzerland), Montreal, Harvard, Sao Paulo, Asunción, and University Católica de Chile.

Career

L aboratory assistant in physiology, 1907 1915- professor of physiology in the Facof Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences of Buenos Aires, 1910-1919. Laboratory chief of the Bacteriological Institute of the National Department of Hygiene, 1915-1919. Professor of physiology in the Faculty of Medicine of Buenos Aires since 1919.

Director of the Institute of physiology of the Faculty of Medicine.

Counselor of the Faculty of Medicine, 1923-1926, 1929-1931. Vice-dean, 1931; member of the Superior Council of the University of Buenos Aires, 1932-1933.

Vice-president of the Permanent Pharmacopeia Commission. Member of the National Commission on Climatology and Mineral Waters.

Chief of ward of the Alvear Hospital of Buenos Aires.

MemberSociedad Argentina de Biología (president, 1920-1923, 1929-1934). Academia Nacional de Medicina of Buenos Aires (president of the biological section). Academies of Medicine of Rome, Madrid, Valladolid, and Rio de Janeiro (corresponding).

Academies of Sciences of Turin and Rio de Janeiro (corresponding).

Société de Pathologie Exotique of Paris. Società Italiana di Biología Sperimentale.

Russian Society of Endocrinology. Medical Societies of Sao Paulo and Rosario.

Societies of Biology of Paris, Barcelona, Mexico, Concepción, and Montevideo (corresponding).

Decorations and

Achievements

• He had been president of the Argentine Society of Biology (1920-1923, 1929 - 1934) and of the National Academy of Medicine of Buenos Aires (1936 - 1937). A long-time member of the Argentine Academy of Medicine and founder of the Argentine Association for the Advancement of Science and the Argentine Biological Society, Houssay received many honors, including degrees from Paris.
  
  Over 600 scientific papers and several books attest to the breadth as well as the depth of his research.
  
  Houssay’s activities were widely admired and recognized.  Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard.  In addition he was an associate foreign member of many scientific societies in the United States, Britain,  Germany,  France,  Italy, and Spain.   
  
  Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1947).

Membership

Member permanent coni., International Physiology Congresses. Member: Asociación Argentina para el Progreso de las Ciencias (president), Society Argentina,de Biología (president), Academy Nacional de Medicina (ex-president), Academy, de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Academy Argentina de Letras. Member, Royal Swedish Academy, of Science, National Academy, of Science (United States of America), Académie de Médecine (France, Belgium).

Member, Russian Association of Endocrinology.

Connections

Married Doctor María Angélica Catán. Children: Alberto Bernardo, Héctor, and Raúl.

Father:

Alberto Houssay

Mother:

Clara Laffont

Spouse:

Alaría Angélica Catán

child:

Raúl HOUSSAY

child:

Alberto HOUSSAY

child:

Héctor HOUSSAY

References

• NOBEL PRIZE 1947 Bernardo Alberto Houssay autograph, signed card mounted