Today
would have been the 92nd anniversary of Italian pharmacologist born in Switzerland Daniel Bovet, whose discoveries helped give birth the modern pharmaceutical industry. As a young researcher in 1930, Bovet identified sulphanilamide as active agent in Prontosil - a dye that fought streptococcal infections - "miracles Drugs" and launched the large-scale production of the first sulfa antibiotics, or thereafter.
in the early 1940s, Bovet synthesized the first antihistamines used in modern medicine. and after studying the properties of muscle relaxant curare, a poison used by some South American Indian arrows, he designed synthetic versions for use in surgery. for these advances, Bovet won the 1957 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. in addition, Bovet think the key to treating mental illness lies in chemistry, and it helped . basic research in neuropharmacology He died in 1992.
[Source:EmilyMcMurrayEd Notable Twentieth Century scientists (Gale research Inc., ITP, 1995)]
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