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Died. Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay, 84, first South American scientist to win the Nobel Prize; in Buenos Aires. 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. To the embarrassment of Argentine Dictator Juan Perón, Houssay was awarded the prize shortly after being fired from his post at the University of Buenos Aires for signing a pro-democratic manifesto. The fiercely independent scientist was reinstated following Perón's ouster...
...secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
...Argentina's Dictator Juan Domingo Perón it was all very embarrassing. Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay, the first South American to win a Nobel Prize in medicine (TIME, Nov. 3), was an Argentine, but he was no Peronista. In fact, Perón had fired him from the faculty of the University of Buenos Aires in 1946 because he signed a wartime manifesto favoring "democracy and American solidarity...
...Government-controlled papers kept quiet; what was left of the opposition press printed glowing stories. Then the Peron party line was passed along. The pro-Perón La Época, charging that the prize had been "granted with political ends," went to town with a caricature of Dr. Houssay and an attack on the originality and value of his studies of the pituitary gland. "This gland detective," it said, should have been doing something useful like tackling tuberculosis and syphilis. Physiologist Houssay did not reply. He was busy last week getting ready for next month's trip...
Recently the Cori studies merged with those of Houssay. Following up Houssay's discovery that the pituitary is involved in diabetes, the Coris found that a mysterious substance in a pituitary extract seems to regulate the body's absorption of sugar...