Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:	1940
Number:	17 - 3
Nominee:
Name:	Bernardo Alberto Houssay
Gender:	M
Year, Birth:	1887
Year, Death:	1971
Profession:	prof physiology
University:	University of Buenos Aires
City:	Buenos Aires
Country:	ARGENTINA (AR)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947
Motivation:	Influence of glands of internal secretion on control of carbohydrate storage and utilization; especially the physiological importance of the pituitary gland for carbohydrate metabolism.
Nominator:
Name:	Walter B Cannon
Gender:	M
Year, Birth:	1871
Year, Death:	1945
Profession:	prof physiology
University:	Harvard Medical School
City:	Cambridge
State:	MA
Country:	UNITED STATES (US)
Comments:	Also nominated, for other discoveries, were H. Berger, M. Sakel and H. Goldblatt (see nrs 17-0, 1, & 2 respectively).