BIOLOGIST

Hugo Theorell

1903 - 1982

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Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell (6 July 1903 – 15 August 1982) was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine. He was born in Linköping as the son of Thure Theorell and his wife Armida Bill. Theorell went to Secondary School at Katedralskolan in Linköping and passed his examination there on 23 May 1921. In September, he began to study medicine at the Karolinska Institute and in 1924 he graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Theorell is the 67th most popular biologist (down from 51st in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Biologist.

Hugo Theorell was a Swedish physiologist who is most famous for his work in the field of respiratory physiology.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hugo Theorell ranks 67 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean Dausset, Gregory Winter, Linda B. Buck, Daniel Bovet, Hugo de Vries, and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. After him are Dian Fossey, George Shaw, Adelbert von Chamisso, Günter Blobel, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Elizabeth Blackburn.

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Among people born in 1903, Hugo Theorell ranks 25. Before him are Yasujirō Ozu, Marguerite Yourcenar, Tamam Shud case, Lars Onsager, Kane Tanaka, and Frank P. Ramsey. After him are Anaïs Nin, Mustafa Barzani, Karl Hanke, Rudolf Abel, Nikolai Podgorny, and Fahri Korutürk. Among people deceased in 1982, Hugo Theorell ranks 27. Before him are Stanford Moore, Louis Aragon, Gilles Villeneuve, Glenn Gould, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and Barack Obama Sr.. After him are Gala Dalí, Georges Perec, Hugh Everett III, Mikhail Suslov, Władysław Gomułka, and Jacques Tati.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Hugo Theorell ranks 84 out of 1,879. Before him are Carl Larsson (1853), Marie Taglioni (1804), Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981), Keke Rosberg (1948), Alva Myrdal (1902), and Stellan Skarsgård (1951). After him are Gustav, Prince of Vasa (1799), Sven Hedin (1865), Avicii (1989), Eric the Victorious (945), Anders Zorn (1860), and Marie Fredriksson (1958).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Hugo Theorell ranks 3. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), and Tomas Lindahl (1938). After him are Svante Pääbo (1955), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Adam Afzelius (1750), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Anders Sparrman (1748), Eva Ekeblad (1724), and Jacob Georg Agardh (1813).

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