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Houssay

American  
[oo-sahy] / uˈsaɪ /

noun

  1. Bernardo Alberto 1887–1971, Argentine physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.


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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

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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