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Sune Bergström

1916 - 2004

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sune Bergström is the 149th most popular chemist (down from 142nd in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 120th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Chemist.

Sune Bergström is most famous for his discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sune Bergström ranks 149 out of 602. Before him are Julius Lothar Meyer, Roger D. Kornberg, Jerome Karle, Kurt Wüthrich, Johann Rudolf Glauber, and Glenn T. Seaborg. After him are Casimir Funk, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Kolbe, Harry Kroto, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, and Robert W. Holley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sune Bergström ranks 25. Before him are Jean Dausset, Christian B. Anfinsen, Camilo José Cela, Claude Shannon, Frederick Chapman Robbins, and Hans Eysenck. After him are Maurice Wilkins, Harold Wilson, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Walt Whitman Rostow, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Alexander Prokhorov. Among people deceased in 2004, Sune Bergström ranks 22. Before him are Françoise Sagan, Christopher Reeve, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Janet Leigh. After him are Maurice Wilkins, Akhmad Kadyrov, Helmut Newton, Stieg Larsson, Laura Branigan, and Julius Axelrod.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sune Bergström ranks 94 out of 1,879. Before him are Eric the Victorious (945), Anders Zorn (1860), Marie Fredriksson (1958), Axel Oxenstierna (1583), Sigfrid Edström (1870), and Olof Skötkonung (980). After him are Folke Bernadotte (1895), Louise of Sweden (1851), Ulf von Euler (1905), Birger Jarl (1210), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), and Bertil Ohlin (1899).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Sune Bergström ranks 6. Before him are Alfred Nobel (1833), Svante Arrhenius (1859), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Theodor Svedberg (1884), and Arne Tiselius (1902). After him are Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Georg Brandt (1694), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), and Per Teodor Cleve (1840).

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