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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physiology or Medicine (216) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1950s (72) 1957 (6) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1907 (7) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) Switzerland (17) Fleurier (2) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1990s (82) 1992 (6) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, southern (27) Italy (14) Rome (5) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) D (34) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) B (80) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name A-D (94) D (19) Daniel (7) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 51 (21) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Life Scientists (181) Biological Scientists (181) 33. Ethnic Origins 33. Ethnic Origins Europe (33) Europe, southern (20) Italy (20) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, southern (30) Italy (18) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, southern (24) Italy (15) Rome (12) Sapienza University of Rome (12) Short-term academic staff (3) Europe, western (390) Switzerland (65) Geneva (10) University of Geneva (9) Alumni (4) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Académie Nationale de Médecine (34) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) E-P (571) F (89) French Academy of Sciences (89) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) complete name: Daniel Bovet nobel prize: medicine award year: 1957 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1957 was awarded to Daniel Bovet "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." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Daniel family name: Bovet occupation: physician occupation: pharmacist occupation: Esperantist occupation: university teacher occupation: pharmacologist occupation: biochemist occupation: neuroscientist field of work: histamine antagonist field of work: sulfonamide work location: Pasteur Institute, 15th arrondissement of Paris, France description: 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 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. 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. 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 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. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1957. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1957/summary/> date birth: 1907 date death: 1992 usual name: Daniel Bovet
