Jan Waldenström

Jan Gösta Waldenström (born April 17, 1906 in Stockholm , † December 1, 1996 in Malmö ) was a Swedish internist .

family

Jan Waldenström was the son of Henning Waldenström (1877–1972), professor of orthopedics at the Karolinska Institutet , and his wife Elsa Laurin (1870–1939). His paternal grandfather was Johan Waldenström (1839–1879), professor of practical medicine at Uppsala University . In his first marriage, Jan Waldenström was married to Elisabeth Waldenström (1908–2000) from 1932 to 1956. The couple had three sons and two daughters. In 1957 he married Karin Nordsjö (1918–1990). From this marriage two sons were born.

Life

Waldenström studied medicine at Uppsala University until 1933 . He then worked for a year at the Technical University of Munich in Hans Fischer 's laboratory . In 1937 he was in Uppsala with the work studies of porphyria doctorate . In 1947 Waldenström was appointed professor at Uppsala University. From 1949 until his retirement in 1972 he was a professor at Lund University and chief physician for internal medicine at the associated hospital in Malmö (Malmö Allmänna Sjukhus).

Act

After Waldenstrom is Waldenstrom (synonym "Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia") named a slowly progressive malignant lymphoma , associated with abnormal production of immunoglobulin M associated (IgM) and the B-cell - non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is counted. Jan Waldenström first described the disease in 1944 in a case report . In 1943 he described hyperglobulinaemica purpura , a coagulation disorder in paraproteinemia .

Honors

1950: Member of the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund
1963: Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1964: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
1966: Gairdner Foundation International Award
1966: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1969: Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1972: Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
1978: External member of the Académie des sciences

Publications (selection)

Studies on Porphyria. In: Acta medica Scandinavica. Suppl. 82, 1937. pp. 1-284, ISSN 0365-463X .
Reflections and recollections from a long life with medicine (= Haematologica series , Ferrara Storti Foundation), Il pensiero scientifico, Rome 1994, ISBN 978-88-7002-654-2 .

literature

Robert A. Kyle, Kenneth C. Anderson: A tribute to Jan Gosta Waldenström. In: Blood . Volume 89, Number 12, June 1997, pp. 4245-4247, ISSN 0006-4971 . doi: 10.1182 / blood.V89.12.4245 , PMID 9192746 ,
Domenico Ribatti: The fundamental contribution of Jan C. Waldenström to the discovery and study of the so-called “Waldenström macroglobulinemia”. In: Leukemia Research Volume 31, Number 4, April 2007, pp. 435-438, ISSN 0145-2126 . doi: 10.1016 / j.leukres.2006.09.013 , PMID 17109957 .

Individual evidence

↑ Waldenström, Jan Gösta . In: Karin Nordquist (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1943 . 16th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1942, ISSN 0347-3341 , p. 863 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
↑ Waldenström, Johan Henning . In: Karin Nordquist (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1943 . 16th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1942, ISSN 0347-3341 , p. 863 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
↑ Jan Waldenström: Studies on Porphyria. In: Acta medica Scandinavica. Suppl. 82, 1937. pp. 1-284, ISSN 0365-463X .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Waldenström, Jan G. In: Sten Lagerström, Elvan Sölvén (Ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1969 . 29th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1968, ISSN 0347-3341 , p. 989 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
↑ Jan Waldenström: Incipient myelomatosis or “essential” hyperglobulinemia with fibrinogenopenia - a new syndrome? In: Acta Medica Scandinavica. 117, 1944, pp. 216-247, doi: 10.1111 / j.0954-6820.1944.tb03955.x .
^ Member entry of Jan Waldenström at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
^ The Gairdner Foundation : Canada Gairdner International Awardees: Jan Waldenstrom .
^ Goethe University - laureate since 1952. In: uni-frankfurt.de. March 14, 2016, accessed January 23, 2016 .
^ List of former members since 1666: Letter W. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 13, 2020 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Waldenström, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Waldenström, Jan Gösta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish internist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1996
Place of death	Malmo

[1] Waldenström, Jan Gösta . In: Karin Nordquist (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1943 . 16th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1942, ISSN 0347-3341 , p. 863 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

[2] Waldenström, Johan Henning . In: Karin Nordquist (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1943 . 16th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1942, ISSN 0347-3341 , p. 863 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

[3] Jan Waldenström: Studies on Porphyria. In: Acta medica Scandinavica. Suppl. 82, 1937. pp. 1-284, ISSN 0365-463X .

[vemärdet1969-4] Waldenström, Jan G. In: Sten Lagerström, Elvan Sölvén (Ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1969 . 29th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1968, ISSN 0347-3341 , p. 989 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

[5] Jan Waldenström: Incipient myelomatosis or “essential” hyperglobulinemia with fibrinogenopenia - a new syndrome? In: Acta Medica Scandinavica. 117, 1944, pp. 216-247, doi: 10.1111 / j.0954-6820.1944.tb03955.x .

[6] Member entry of Jan Waldenström at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.

[7] The Gairdner Foundation : Canada Gairdner International Awardees: Jan Waldenstrom .

[8] Goethe University - laureate since 1952. In: uni-frankfurt.de. March 14, 2016, accessed January 23, 2016 .

[9] List of former members since 1666: Letter W. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 13, 2020 (French).