Sune Bergström
Sune Bergström | |
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Born | Karl Sune Detlof Bergström 10 January 1916 Stockholm, Sweden |
Died | 15 August 2004 | (aged 88)
Known for | Prostaglandin discoveries |
Relatives | Svante Pääbo (son)[1] |
Awards |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | Columbia University |
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,[2] and was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, together with Bengt I. Samuelsson. He shared the
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.[3] He was also a member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[4][5] 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.[6] He was awarded the Illis quorum in 1985.[7]
In 1943, Bergström married Maj Gernandt.[8] He had two sons, the businessman Rurik Reenstierna, with Maj Gernandt; and the evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo (winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), from an extramarital affair with an Estonian chemist Karin Pääbo.[9] Both sons were born in 1955, and Rurik learned about the existence of his half-brother Svante only around 2004.[10]
Orders, decorations and medals
References
- ^ "Sweden's Paabo wins medicine Nobel for sequencing Neanderthal DNA". m.koreatimes.co.kr. 3 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- ^ "Sune K. Bergström – Biographical". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ "Sune Bergstrom". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- ^ "Sune Bergstrom". www.casinapioiv.va. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Regeringens belöningsmedaljer och regeringens utmärkelse: Professors namn". Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). January 2006. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ Wright, Pearce (18 August 2004). "Sune Bergstrom". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- ^ "Paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo Picks Up Nobel Prize for Human Origins Research". Gizmodo. 3 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- ^ Kolbert, Elizabeth (15 August 2011). "Sleeping with the Enemy". The New Yorker.
- ^ "818 (Sveriges statskalender / 1963)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
External links
- Media related to Sune Bergström at Wikimedia Commons
- Sune K. Bergström on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture The Prostaglandins: From the Laboratory to the Clinic
- The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize