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Argentina's shy, black-eyed Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay is often referred to as "the world's greatest living physiologist" (TIME, May 5). Medical researchers are also enthusiastic about a gifted pair of biochemists at St. Louis' Washington University: shy Dr. Carl Ferdinand Cori and his redhaired, vivacious wife Gerty. Few scientists were surprised last week when Stockholm announced that Houssay and Cori & Cori had been jointly awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine...
...Houssay's award set a precedent: no South American scientist had ever been en-Nobeled before. To the independent, 60-year-old Argentine, who was fired from the University of Buenos Aires by Dictator Juan Perón, the Nobel windfall ($24,460, half the prize) would come in handy. The award was for Houssay's studies of the pituitary, the tiny gland at the base of the brain. He had shown that pituitary hormones, like messengers from a general staff headquarters, control the activity of all other ductless glands in the body. He had also discovered that...
...great admirer of the U.S., which he considers the "most scientific" and one of the "most moral" nations in the world, Dr. Houssay last week was traveling happily from banquet to banquet and reveling in the "international fraternity" of his fellow scientists. Of politics, he said philosophically: "It is very regrettable that political considerations oblige us to some restriction...
...Houssay's most important work has been on the pituitary gland. (He discovered that pituitary secretions play a part in diabetes.) But he and his colleagues have also published nearly 300 reports on a wide range of medical studies. His monumental Human Physiology, considered by some the finest physiology text ever written, will soon be published in English by McGraw-Hill for worldwide distribution -the first Latin American scientific work to be given such recognition. Dr. Houssay has been honored by scientists and leaders of a dozen nations (including the British Royal Society). But in Argentina...
Said shaggy Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, as he presented the research award to Dr. Houssay in Boca Raton: "We regret that a few myopic citizens in our sister Republic of Argentina have tried to black out the Houssay scientific beacon at Buenos Aires. But the Houssay beacon still guides and cheers many workers on the frontiers of biology and medicine in every land...