Daniel Bovet's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

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Daniel Bovet (French: [danjɛl bove]; Italian: [ˈdaːnjɛl boˈve]; 23 March 1907 – 8 April 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. The birth-card coordinate for March 23 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1957 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1957 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 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

The King of Clubs coordinate

Daniel Bovet's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Daniel Bovet. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Daniel Bovet in the public record

He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication. His other research included work on chemotherapy, sulfa drugs, the sympathetic nervous system, the pharmacology of curare, and other neuropharmacological interests. In 1965, Bovet led a study team which concluded that smoking of tobacco cigarettes increased users' intelligence. He told The New York Times that the object was not to "create geniuses, but only [to] put the less-endowed individual in a position to reach a satisfactory mental and intellectual development". Bovet was born in Fleurier, Switzerland. He was a native Esperanto speaker. He graduated from the University of Geneva in 1927 and received his doctorate in 1929. Between 1929 and 1947, he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Daniel Bovet (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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His other research included work on chemotherapy, sulfa drugs, the sympathetic nervous system, the pharmacology of curare, and other neuropharmacological interests.

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1. He then moved to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Superior Institute of Health) in Rome in 1947.
2. Two years later, in 1949, Bovet was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh.
3. In 1964, he became a professor in at the University of Sassari in Italy.
4. From 1969 to 1971, he was the head of the Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology Laboratory of the National Research Council, in Rome, before stepping down to become a professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

Other laureates with this card

• A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• Fredrik Bajer — 1908 Peace
• 28 more laureates share this card.

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What is Daniel Bovet's birth card?

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