Daniel Bovet
Q115448
Daniel Bovet
Science
1200-1400
1400-1600
1600-1800
1800+
trumpet

Featured Today

Egon Schiele
Art.West
Ivan Turgenev
Lit.West
Hans Christian Andersen
Lit.West
Jakob Wassermann
Lit.West
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Lit.West
August Ferdinand Möbius
Science
a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in medicine (1957)
"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"
more…

For much more information, also see

From: Wikipedia
Born
23 March 1907 Fleurier, Switzerland
From: Wikipedia
Died
8 April 1992 (aged 85) Rome, Italy
From: Wikipedia
Fields
Pharmacology
From: Wikipedia
Awards
Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1949) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1957)
From: Open Science FrameworkOSF
adultbasic
Italy
From: Open Science FrameworkOSF
era
1800+