Sune Bergström, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish biochemist
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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Sune Bergström
- 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.
- 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.
- In 1985 he was appointed member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.In 1943, Bergström married Maj Gernandt.
- He had two sons, the businessman Rurik Reenstierna, with Maj Gernandt, and the evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo, from an extramarital affair with the Estonian chemist Karin Pääbo.
- Both sons were born in 1955, and Rurik had learned about existence of Svante only around 2004.
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