Hugo Theorell

Infobox Scientist
name = Hugo Theorell

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caption= Hugo Theorell
birth_date = birth date|1903|7|6|mf=y
birth_place = Linköping, Sweden
death_date = death date and age|1982|8|15|1903|7|6
residence = Sweden
nationality = Swedish
field = Biochemistry
prizes = Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1955)

Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell (July 6, 1903 – August 15, 1982) was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.

He was born in Linköping as the son of Thure Theorell and his wife Armida Bill. Theorell went to Secondary School at Katedralskolan in Linköping and passed his examination there on May 23, 1921. In September, he began to study medicine at the Karolinska Institute and in 1924 he graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine. He then spent three months studying bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris under Professor Albert Calmette. In 1930 he obtained his M.D. degree with a theory on the lipids of the blood plasma, and was appointed professor in physiological chemistry at the Karolinska Institute.

Theorell, who dedicated his entire career to enzyme research, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1955 for discovering the oxidation enzyme and its effects. He was a former head of research of the Nobel Institute, the first researcher related to the Institute to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

His work had lead to pioneering progress on ADH enzymes, which break down alcohol in the kidney. His work won praise in Sweden as well as around the world. And he received honorary degrees at universities in France, Belgium, Brazil and the United States.

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Persondata
NAME= Theorell, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH= July 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH= Linköping, Sweden
DATE OF DEATH= August 15, 1982
PLACE OF DEATH=