Sune Bergström
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Sune Bergström was a Swedish biochemist who lived from 1916 to 2004 and made important discoveries about biological molecules in the human body. His work contributed significantly to our understanding of how the body functions at the chemical level.
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- Born
- Karl Sune Detlof Bergström , ( 1916-01-10 ) 10 January 1916, Stockholm , Sweden
- Died
- 15 August 2004 (2004-08-15) (aged 88)
- Known for
- Prostaglandin discoveries
- Relatives
- Svante Pääbo (son)
- Awards
- Gairdner Foundation International Award (1972) Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1977) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1975) Welch Award in Chemistry (1980) Nobel Prize Medicine (1982) Illis quorum (1985)
- Fields
- Biochemistry
- Institutions
- Columbia University
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Karl Sune Detlof Bergström (10 January 1916 – 15 August 2004) was a Swedish biochemist. In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden, and 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.
Bergström was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1965, and its President in 1983. In 1965, he was also elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966. He was also a member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Bergström was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh in 1977. In 1985, he was appointed member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Illis quorum in 1985.
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1916 births2004 deathsAcademic staff of the Karolinska InstituteColumbia University facultyFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesForeign members of the Russian Academy of SciencesInternational members of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the French Academy of SciencesMembers of the National Academy of MedicineMembers of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences