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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.
Sune K. Bergström was a Swedish biochemist, corecipient with fellow Swede Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson and Englishman John Robert Vane of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. All three were honoured for their isolation, identification, and analysis of prostaglandins, which are biochemical.
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Aug 15, 2004 · Sune K. Bergström The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982 . Born: 10 January 1916, Stockholm, Sweden . Died: 15 August 2004, Stockholm, Sweden . Affiliation at the time of the award: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden . Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982 was awarded jointly to Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances"
Sune Karl Bergström (1916–2004) was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Upon completing high school he went to work at the Karolinska Institute as an assistant to Erik Jorpes where he did research on the biochemistry of fats and steroids.
- Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill
- 2006
Aug 17, 2004 · Sune Karl Bergstrom, biochemist who shared 1982 Nobel Prize in Medicine for unraveling secrets of prostaglandins, family of hormones with wide array of biological functions, dies in his...
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Swedish biochemist-physician Sune K. Bergström was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his work on the isolation, identification, and analysis of prostaglandins.
