Nils Löfgren

Nils Löfgren: For the American musician who performed with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, see Nils Lofgren.

Nils Löfgren, born 1913, died 1967, was a Swedish chemist who developed the anaesthetic Lidocaine (under the name Xylocaine) in 1943. At this time, he had recently finished his licentiate degree, and was teaching organic chemistry at the University of Stockholm. He and his co-worker Bengt Lundqvist sold the rights to Xylocaine to the Swedish pharmaceutical company Astra AB.^[1]

In 1948, Löfgren completed his doctorate, and the title of his dissertation was Studies on local anesthetics: Xylocaine: a new synthetic drug.^[2] He later became professor of organic chemistry at the University of Stockholm.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Early history of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Stockholm (Swedish)

^ Libris database

Persondata

Name Lofgren, Nils

Alternative names

Short description

Date of birth 1913

Place of birth

Date of death 1967

Place of death

This biographical article related to medicine is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias