Medindia: Daniel Bovet - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1957
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Daniel Bovet
Daniel Bovet 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 sym…
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science · Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist · biochemist · neuroscientist · pharmacologist · Esperantist · physician · university teacher · pharmacist · also Daniel Bovet, Bovet
Born 23 March 1907 · Died 8 April 1992 · Q115448
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2002· 1 entry
“Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology: Appreciation and Critique”
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1992· 1 entry
Died 1992-04-08.
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1980· 1 entry
“Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious”
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1965· 1 entry
Bovet led a study team which concluded that smoking of tobacco cigarettes increased users' intelligence
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1964· 1 entry
Became a professor in at the University of Sassari in Italy
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1963).
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Nancy (1962).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1962).
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier (1959).
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1957).
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1949· 1 entry
Bovet was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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1937· 1 entry
Of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-03-23.
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