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Daniel Bovet
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Daniel Bovet was born on 23 March 1907 and died on 8 April 1992. He was a recipient of the Nobel Prize, with a recorded count of one award.
His work is included in several recognized collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1957
“for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Daniel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Neuchâtel
- Place of death
- Rome
- Father
- Pierre Bovet
- Occupation
- biologist
- Educated at
- University of Geneva
- Employer
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- histamine antagonist
- Image
- Daniel Bovet nobel.jpg
- Work location
- Rome
- Residence
- Italy
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1907-03-23
- date of death
- 1992-04-08
- Commons category
- Daniel Bovet
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- cause of death
- cancer
- interested in
- pharmacology
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Neuchâtel
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Encyclopedic overview
Daniel Bovet ForMemRS (23 March 1907 – 8 April 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication. His other research included work on chemotherapy, sulfa drugs, the sympathetic nervous system, the pharmacology of curare, and other neuropharmacological interests.
In 1965, Bovet led a study team which concluded that smoking of tobacco cigarettes increased users' intelligence. He told The New York Times that the object was not to "create geniuses, but only [to] put the less-endowed individual in a position to reach a satisfactory mental and intellectual development".
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