Göran Liljestrand
Göran Liljestrand (born April 16, 1886 in Gothenburg , † January 16, 1968 ) was a Swedish pharmacologist . He is known as a co-discoverer of the Euler-Liljestrand reflex (1946), together with Ulf von Euler . Among other things, he worked as a professor at the Karolinska Institute from 1927 to 1951.
Life
At the beginning he worked as a physiologist and in 1917 wrote a physiological doctoral thesis ( investigations into respiratory work ) with Johan Erik Johansson . In the 1920s he switched to pharmacology. He revised the textbook of pharmacology by the Norwegian pharmacologist E. Poulsson.
For more than 40 years from 1918 he was secretary on the Nobel Prize Committee for Physiology or Medicine . In 1938 he became a full member of the committee and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . The German Pharmacological Society awarded him the Schmiedeberg plaque in 1962 . In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
literature
- Börje Uvnäs: Liljestrand, Göran . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , Vol. 23 (1980–81)
- Göran Liljestrand . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 38 : Supplement: Riksdagens bibliotek – Öyen; tillägg . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1926, Sp. 1416 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ E. Poulsson : Textbook of pharmacology for doctors and students, revised by G. Liljestrand. 11th edition. Leipzig 1937.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liljestrand, Göran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish pharmacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gothenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1968 |