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| Born | Karl Sune Detlof Bergström (1916-01-10)10 January 1916 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Died | 15 August 2004(2004-08-15) (aged 88) |
| Known for | Prostaglandin discoveries |
| Relatives | Svante Pääbo (son)[1] |
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| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
Karl Sune Detlof Bergström (10 January 1916 – 15 August 2004) was a Swedishbiochemist. In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden,[2] and was awarded theLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize fromColumbia University, together withBengt I. Samuelsson.He shared theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine withBengt I. Samuelsson andJohn R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerningprostaglandins and related substances.
Bergström was elected a member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1965, and its President in 1983. In 1965, he was also elected a member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966.[3] He was also a member of both the United StatesNational Academy of Sciences and theAmerican Philosophical Society.[4][5] Bergström was awarded theCameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh in 1977. In 1985, he was appointed member of thePontifical Academy of Sciences.[6] He was awarded theIllis 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 geneticistSvante Pääbo (winner of the2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), from an extramarital affair with Karin Pääbo, an Estonian chemist.[9] Both sons were born in 1955, and Rurik learned about the existence of his half-brother Svante only around 2004.[10]
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