Bernardo Houssay's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an Argentinian physiologist. The birth-card coordinate for April 10 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1947 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1947 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Bernardo Houssay's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Bernardo Houssay. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Bernardo Houssay in the public record

Houssay was a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of glucose in animals, sharing the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori. He is the first Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences. Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born April 10, 1887, in Buenos Aires. His parents Albert and Clara Houssay were immigrants from France. A precocious youngster, he was admitted to the Pharmacy School at the University of Buenos Aires at 14 years of age and subsequently to the Faculty of Medicine of the same university at 17 years old and was there from 1904 to 1910. While a third-year medical student, Houssay took up a post as a research and teaching assistant in the Chair of Physiology. After graduating, he quickly developed and presented his M.D. thesis on the physiological activities of pituitary extracts, published in 1911. This was a theme he would pursue for the rest of his scientific career.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bernardo Houssay (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Houssay was a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of glucose in animals, sharing the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori.

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Also on the record

1. Since 1908 he was an assistant lecturer in the same department and immediately after his doctorate, he took up the post of Professor of Physiology in the university's School of Veterinary Medicine.
2. Simultaneously, he started a private practice as an assistant physician at the municipal hospital of Buenos Aires.
3. In 1913, he became Chief Physician at the Alvear Hospital, and in 1915, became Chief of the Section of Experimental Pathology at the National Public Health Laboratories in Buenos Aires.
4. In 1919, Houssay was appointed as the chair of physiology at the University of Buenos Aires Medicine School, serving there until 1943.

Other laureates with this card

• André Lwoff — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• C.T.R. Wilson — 1927 Physics
• Edwin G. Krebs — 1992 Physiology or Medicine
• Eugene F. Fama — 2013 Economic Sciences
• Ferdinand Braun — 1909 Physics
• Friedrich von Hayek — 1974 Economic Sciences
• Gerard Debreu — 1983 Economic Sciences
• H. Robert Horvitz — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• Heinrich Rohrer — 1986 Physics
• Henry Dunant — 1901 Peace
• Herbert A. Hauptman — 1985 Chemistry
• Jules A. Hoffmann — 2011 Physiology or Medicine
• 8 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Bernardo Houssay's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. April 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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