Sune Bergström
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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,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name=AAAS>Template:Cite web</ref> He was also a member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was awarded the Illis quorum in 1985.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1943, Bergström married Maj Gernandt.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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 Karin Pääbo, an Estonian chemist.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Both sons were born in 1955, and Rurik learned about the existence of his half-brother Svante only around 2004.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Orders, decorations and medals
- Order of the Polar Star<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Illis quorum<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
References
External links
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- The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
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- 1916 births
- 2004 deaths
- Swedish biochemists
- Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
- Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute
- Columbia University faculty
- Swedish Nobel laureates
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- Recipients of the Illis quorum
- International members of the American Philosophical Society
- Members of the National Academy of Medicine
- Scientists from Stockholm