Houssay
Americannoun
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To the embarrassment of Argentine Dictator Juan Per�n, Houssay was awarded the prize shortly after being fired from his post at the University of Buenos Aires for signing a pro-democratic manifesto.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay, the first South American to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, was an Argentine who had: 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
Houssay won the 1947 prize in medicine for discovering the role of pituitary hormones in the metabolism of sugar�a breakthrough that played a significant part in the understanding and treatment of diabetes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lamarck in theory was throughout, as Houssay well says, at one with us who are now living, but a century behind us in knowledge of the facts needed to support his theory.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
It is clear then that the swastika has the same reputation for magic and the same attributes and associations as the octopus; and it may be a conventionalized representation of it, as Houssay has suggested.
From The Evolution of the Dragon by Smith, G. Elliot
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