Sune Bergström
Swedish biochemist (1916–2004)
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Lived 1916–2004, aged 88Sweden
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He untangled the biochemistry of prostaglandins — molecules that regulate inflammation, blood flow, and pain — work that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1982 and quietly underpins much of modern medicine.
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Karl Sune Detlof Bergström was born on 10 January 1916 in Sweden. His research into prostaglandins and related substances, shared with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane, led to the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. By then he'd already spent years inside the machinery of Swedish science: elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1965, its president in 1983, appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board in 1975. He collected honors along the way — the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in 1975, the Cameron Prize in 1977, the Illis quorum in 1985 — and joined academies on two continents…
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