Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson
Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born May 21, 1934 in Halmstad ) is a Swedish biochemist who, together with Sune Karl Bergström and John Robert Vane, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on prostaglandins and closely related biologically active substances .
He studied medicine at the University of Lund , during this time also worked in the laboratory of the prostaglandin researcher Sune Karl Bergström and after a few years switched to the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm , where he studied biochemistry as well as researching with Bergström from 1958 and 1960 completed his dissertation and got a job as a lecturer . After a year as a visiting researcher at Harvard , among other things , he later became a professor at the Karolinska Instituteand appointed chairman of the Department of Physiological Chemistry. From 1978 to 1983 he was the dean of the medical faculty there and was then rector of the Karolinska Institute until 1995.
Initially he was concerned with cholesterol metabolism. After his work on prostaglandins with Bergström, he dealt with the metabolism of arachidonic acid and associated thromboxane , leukotrienes and endoperoxides with applications in thrombosis , allergies , inflammation.
In 1981 he had received a Gairdner Foundation International Award and in 1975 with Bergström the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1982 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 1984 . In the same year he gave the George M. Kober Lecture . In 1988 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea .
He was chairman of the Nobel Foundation . He was on the supervisory boards of various pharmaceutical companies such as Schering and Pharmacia AB .
literature
- Bengt Samuelsson , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/1994 of March 7, 1994, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Gisela Baumgart: Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1284.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1982 award ceremony for Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Baumgart: Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar. 2005, p. 1284.
- ^ Membership directory: Bengt Samuelsson. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 17, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Samuelsson, Bengt I. |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halmstad , Sweden |