Sune Bergström

Sune Karl Bergström (born January 10, 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden; died August 15, 2004) was a Swedish biochemist.Infobox Scientist
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birth_date = January 10, 1916
birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden
death_date = August 15, 2004 (age 88)
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nationality = Swedish
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field = Biochemistry
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known_for = Prostaglandin
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prizes = Nobel Prize Medicine, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
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In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden. [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1982/bergstrom-autobio.html Sune K. Bergström - Autobiography ] ] In 1975, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Bengt I. Samuelsson.He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.

Sune Bergström is the father of the evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo and of the businessman Rurik Bergström.He was an honorary member of the International Academy of Science.

You can find out more about Bergström's scientific qualifications on his Autobiography website: [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1982/bergstrom-autobio.html Bergström Autobiography]

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* [http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/horwitz/ The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]