Daniel Bovet

Daniel Bovet

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1957

Italian National Institute of Health

“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”

Daniel Bovet was an Italian-Swiss pharmacologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 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.

Field
Medicine · Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Lifespan
1907–1992