Daniel Bovet

Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1907–1992)

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Daniel Bovet was an Italian-Swiss pharmacologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning synthetic compounds that block the effects of certain natural substances in the body. His work laid important groundwork for developing new medicines, particularly antihistamines and drugs affecting the nervous system.

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Born: 1907
Works: 4

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Tempesta del deserto
Les territoires de régénération
Structure et activité pharmacodynamique des médicaments du système nerveux végétatif
Une chimie qui guérit

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Type: Person
Country: CH
Active from: 1942-05-22

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5 total works indexed

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
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Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,683x
UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,713x
Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
· 1979 · cited 39,536x
MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,687x

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date of birth: 1907-03-23
date of death: 1992-04-08
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P8168: 1922 ISSF World Shooting Championships

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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".