| Activity | Education:
Public school in Halmstad, Sweden; University of Lund, Lund; Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm MD 1960; PhD 19161
Career:
Assistant professor of medical chemistry, Karolinska Institutet (1961-1966); Research fellow, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts., U.S.A (1961-1962); Professor of medical chemistry, Royal Veterinary College, Stockholm (1967-1972); Professor of medical and physiological chemistry, Karolinska Institutet (1973); Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Karolinska Institutet (1973); Visiting professor in chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., spring term (1976); Dean of the Medical Faculty, Karolinska Institutet (1978-1983); Rector of Karolinska Institutet (1983-1995); died from heart disease.
Memberships:
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1981
Awards/Medals:
Swedish Medical Association's Jubilee Award, 1968 and 1981
Anders Jahres Award, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway 1970
Louisa Gross Horwitz Award, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. 1975
Honorary Member American Society of Biological Chemists 1976
Intrascience Medalist, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. 1976
Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, New York, U.S.A. 1977
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. 1978
Ciba Geigy Drew Award in Biomedical Research, Madison, New Jersey, U.S A. 1980
Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award in Basic Medical Research, Brandeis University, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 1981
Swedish Medical Association’s Jubilee Award, Stockholm, Sweden 1981
The Gairdner Foundation Award, Toronto, Canada 1981
Heinrich Wieland Prize, Munich, West Germany 1981
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) for his discoveries concerning prostaglandins, together with Sune Bergström and John Vane, 1982
The Bror Holmberg Medal of the Swedish Chemical Society 1982
Honorary Member Association of American Physicians 1982
Member of the Mediterranean Academy, Catania, Italy 1982
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1982
American Chemical Society Division of Medical Chemistry Award 1982
Waterford Bio-Medical Science Award, La Jolla, California, U.S.A. 1982
International Association of Allergology & Clinical Immunology Award, London, Great Britian 1982
Honorary Member, Swedish Medical Association, Stockholm, Sweden 1982
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Illinois, U.S.A. 1983 |
| Source | The Royal Society Fellows Directory, Professor Bengt Samuelsson ForMemRS, [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/bengt-samuelsson-12224/; last accessed: 12/02/2025]
The Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982, Bengt I. Samuelsson Biographical, [URL: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1982/samuelsson/biographical/; last accessed: 12/02/2025]
The New York Times, Delthia Ricks, 17 July 2024, Bengt Samuelsson, 90, Dies; Nobelist’s Research Led to Medical Advances, [URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/science/bengt-samuelsson-dead.html; last accessed: 12/02/2025] |