Daniel Bovet (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 drug, the
sympathetic nervous system, the
pharmacology of
curare, and other
neuropharmacological interests.
Bovet was
born in Fleurier
, Switzerland
. He was one of the few people who learned
Esperanto as a
first language.
He graduated from the
University of
Geneva
in 1927 and received his doctorate in 1929.
Beginning
in 1929 until 1947 he worked at the Pasteur Institute
in Paris
.
He then
moved in 1947 to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Superior
Institute of Health) in Rome
.
In 1964,
he became a professor in at the University of Sassari
in Italy. From 1969 to 1971, he was the head of the
National Research Council in Rome before stepping down to become a
professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza
. He retired in 1982.
References
- Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962,
Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964
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