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| name = Daniel Bovet
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| birth_date = 	{{birth date|1907|3|23|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Fleurier]], [[Switzerland]]
| death_date =	{{death date and age|1992|4|8|1907|3|23}}
| residence = [[Italy]]
| nationality = [[Switzerland|Swiss]]
| field = [[Pharmacology]]
| prizes = [[Image:Nobel prize medal.svg|20px]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1957)
}}



'''Daniel Bovet''' ([[March 23]], [[1907]] &ndash; [[April 8]], [[1992]]) was a Swiss-born [[Italy|Italian]] [[pharmacology|pharmacologist]] who won the 1957 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific [[neurotransmitter]]s. He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of [[antihistamine]]s, which block the neurotransmitter [[histamine]] and are used in [[allergy]] medication. His other research included work on [[chemotherapy]], [[Sulfonamide (medicine)|sulfa drug]]s, the [[sympathetic nervous system]], the pharmacology of [[curare]], and other neuropharmacological interests.

Bovet was born in [[Fleurier]], [[Switzerland]].  He was one of the few people who learned [[Esperanto]] as a [[first language]]. 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 National Research Council in Rome before stepping down to become a professor at the [[University of Rome La Sapienza]]. He retired in 1982.

==References==
*''Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962'', Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964 

==External links==
*[http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1957/bovet-bio.html Nobel Prize biography]

{{Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureates 1951-1975}}

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