Daniel Bovet

Daniel Bovet was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, born in 1907, who graduated from the University of Geneva in 1927 and took his doctorate in 1929. Between 1929 and 1947 he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where in 1937 he made his best-known discovery, the antihistamines. He then moved to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, became a professor at the University of Sassari in 1964, and later headed a psychobiology and psychopharmacology laboratory of the National Research Council in Rome before becoming a professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters.