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Daniel Bovet

1907 - 1992

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Daniel Bovet (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Bovet is the 64th most popular biologist (down from 58th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Biologist.

Daniel Bovet is most famous for his invention of an anti-cholera serum.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Daniel Bovet ranks 64 out of 1,097. Before him are Theodor Schwann, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Jean Dausset, Gregory Winter, and Linda B. Buck. After him are Hugo de Vries, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Hugo Theorell, Dian Fossey, George Shaw, and Adelbert von Chamisso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Daniel Bovet ranks 26. Before him are Frank Whittle, Bhagat Singh, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Yang Shangkun, and Hideki Yukawa. After him are Robert A. Heinlein, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, Lin Biao, Fred Zinnemann, and Horst Wessel. Among people deceased in 1992, Daniel Bovet ranks 16. Before him are Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Francis Bacon, Barbara McClintock, Giovanni Falcone, and Li Xiannian. After him are Karl Carstens, Ernst Happel, Joan Fuster, Jan Oort, Benny Hill, and Paolo Borsellino.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Daniel Bovet ranks 50 out of 1,015. Before him are Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Adelaide of Italy (931), Eugen Bleuler (1857), and Lys Assia (1924). After him are Robert Walser (1878), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Ursula Andress (1936), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), and Angelica Kauffman (1741).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Daniel Bovet ranks 2. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516). After him are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Werner Arber (1929), Carl Nägeli (1817), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Louis Agassiz (1807), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Charles Bonnet (1720), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Albert von Kölliker (1817), and Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818).

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