Appointed professor of physiology (1910) and director of the physiological
institute (1919) at the University of Buenos Aires, Houssay was one
of 150 Argentine educators dismissed from their posts by the 1943 military
coup of Gen. Juan Peron. Although he was reinstated in 1945, he was
asked to submit his resignation a year later. He founded (1944) and
directed (from 1946) the Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine,
Buenos Aires, a leading physiological research centre. His best known
book is Human Physiology (1951).
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