Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist
Daniel Bovet ForMemRS [ 2] 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.[ 3] The New York Times [ 4]
Bovet was born in Fleurier , Switzerland . He was a native Esperanto speaker . He graduated from the University of Geneva in 1927 and received his doctorate in 1929. Betweebn 1929 and 1947, he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris . He then moved to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Superior Institute of Health ) in Rome in 1947. Two years later, in 1949, Bovet was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh . In 1964, he became a professor in at the University of Sassari in Italy. From 1969 to 1971, he was the head of the Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology Laboratory 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.
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