Daniel Bovet
Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1907–1992)
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He found the molecular switch that stops allergic reactions — the first antihistamine, in 1937 — and spent a career blocking signals in the nervous system with enough precision to win the 1957 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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Daniel Bovet was born in Fleurier, Switzerland, in 1907, a native Esperanto speaker who took his doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1929. He joined the Pasteur Institute in Paris that year and worked there until 1947, the stretch in which he discovered antihistamines and pressed into chemotherapy, sulfa drugs, and the pharmacology of curare. He moved to Rome's Istituto Superiore di Sanità in 1947, won the Cameron Prize in 1949, and collected the Nobel eight years later. In 1965 he led a study concluding that smoking cigarettes raised intelligence — he told the Times the goal was to hel…
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