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Bernardo Alberto Houssay
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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay: Facts & Related Content

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Born April 10, 1887 • Buenos Aires • Argentina
Died September 21, 1971 (aged 84) • Buenos Aires • Argentina
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1947)
Subjects Of Study blood • glucose • pituitary hormone
César Milstein
Argentine immunologist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Moser, Edvard I.
Edvard I. Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist
Moser, May-Britt
May-Britt Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist
Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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