Background
HOUSSAY, Bernardo was born on April 10, 1887 in Buenos Aires. Son of Doctor Alberto Houssay and Clara Laffont.
Argentine physician and professor
HOUSSAY, Bernardo was born on April 10, 1887 in Buenos Aires. Son of Doctor Alberto Houssay and Clara Laffont.
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.
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
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.
Married Doctor María Angélica Catán. Children: Alberto Bernardo, Héctor, and Raúl.