Herbert Olivecrona
Axel Herbert Olivecrona (July 11, 1891 – January 1980) was a Swedish professor and
Family, early life and education
Herbert Olivecrona was born July 11, 1891, in
In his youth, he was playing elite bandy. He was part of the IFK Uppsala bandy team, which in 1912 played a draw in the final against Djurgårdens IF and shared the Swedish championship that year.[3]
Originally attending school in
Medical career
In 1919, Olivecrona received a fellowship from the
In 1935, he became the first professor of neurosurgery at the
Among his most famous patients was the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy, whose brain tumor he operated on in 1936. Karinthy put it into a novel titled "A Journey Round my Skull."
In 1955, Olivecrona was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He retired from the Karolinska in 1960 and went into private practice, during which time he also accepted an invitation to travel to Cairo and establish a neurosurgical unit in Egypt. He later co-wrote a neurosurgical handbook, Handbuch der Neurochirugie.[2] Olivecrona died in January 1980.[7]
Legacy
The Herbert Olivecrona Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize of Neurosurgery", is awarded annually by the Karolinska Institute to a neurosurgeon or neuroscientist who has made an outstanding contribution to the neurosurgical field.[8][9]
Recipients of the Herbert Olivecrona Award by year:[10]
- John F. Mullan, 1976
- Charles G. Drake, 1977
- M. Gazi Yaşargil, 1978
- Leonard I Malis, 1979
- Lindsay Symon, 1980
- Charles B. Wilson, 1982
- Peter J. Jannetta, 1983
- Kenichiro Sugita, 1984
- John A. Jane, 1985
- Majid Samii, 1987
- William H. Sweet, 1989
- Graham Teasdale, 1991
- Keiji Sano, 1992
- Emil Pasztor, 1993
- Alan Crockard, 1995
- Vinko Dolenc, 1996
- Takanori Fukushima, 1997
- Michael Apuzzo, 1998
- Robert F. Spetzler, 1999
- Albert Rhoton Jr., 2000
- Patrick J. Kelly, 2001
- Nicolas de Tribolet, 2002
- Matti Vapalahti, 2003
- Alexander N. Konovalov, 2004
- Björn Meyerson, 2005
- Niels-Aage Svendgaard, 2005
- Cornelius A. F. Tulleken, 2006
- Ross M. Bullock, 2007
- Bernard George, 2008
- Michael Fehlings, 2009
- Hugues Duffau (fr), 2010
- Ossama al-Mefty, 2011
- Andres Lozano, 2012
- Marianne Juhler, 2013
- Peter J.A. Hutchinson, 2015
- P. David Adelson, 2016
- L. Dade Lunsford, 2017
- Ali Fadl Krisht, 2019
Selected works
- An experimental study of the circulatory failure in peritonitis (Academical treatise), 1922
- Congenital arteriovenous aneurysms of the carotid and vertebral arterial systems, 1957
References
- PMID 8416233.
- ^ a b c d e "Herbert Olivecrona, MD". The Society of Neurological Surgeons. 2008. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ Claes-G Bengtsson (17 March 2012). "SM-finalen 17 mars 1912 – ännu offulbordat 100-årsjubileum" (in Swedish). Swedish Bandy Association. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
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- ISBN 978-0-199-60207-0.
- ^ "Honored Guests – Herbert Olivecrona". Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ "Neurosurgeon awarded top prize in his field". University Health Network. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
- ^ "Olivecrona Lecturers" (pdf). Karolinska Institutet. 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
- ^ "Dr. Ossama Al-Mefty receives the Olivecrona medal". neurosurgic.com. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
- Runeberg
- Sveriges dödbok 1947-2006, (CD-rom), Sveriges Släktforskarförbund