biography
pronunciation:
[bohvay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–92)
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| biography:
| Pharmacologist, born in Neuchâtel, W Switzerland. He studied chemistry at Geneva, and conducted research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (1929–47), where he developed the first antihistamine drug and the first synthetic muscle-relaxants, for which he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In 1947 he emigrated to Italy, where later he was appointed professor of psychology at the University of Rome (1971–82). |
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