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Jai Ganesh

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Re: General Quiz

Hi,

#9797. Name the  Austrian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen". (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957)

#9798. Name the Argentine physiologist. 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. (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971)  He is the first Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.

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