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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 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"
Daniel Bovet
Daniel Bovet
Italy
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Chief Institute of Public Health)
Rome, Italy
b. 1907
(in Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
d. 1992
 
 
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