Technology

Argentina did not contribute many technological or scientific advancements during the 1940s and 1950s. However, in 1947 an Argentine physiologist named Bernardo Alberto Houssay earned part of the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine "for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar". These studies were extremely critical to the emergence of in-depth endocrinology (the study of the human endocrine system; hormones, growth, and the like).