Sune Bergström Explained

Sune Bergström
Birth Name:Karl Sune Detlof Bergström
Birth Date:10 January 1916
Birth Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Field:Biochemistry
Work Institutions:Columbia University
Relatives:Svante Pääbo (son)[1]
Known For:Prostaglandin discoveries
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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,[2] 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.[3] He was also a member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[4] [5] Bergström was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh in 1977. In 1985, he was appointed member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.[6] He was awarded the Illis 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 geneticist Svante Pääbo (winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), from an extramarital affair with an Estonian chemist Karin Pääbo.[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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  1. Web site: Sweden's Paabo wins medicine Nobel for sequencing Neanderthal DNA . 2022-10-03 . . 3 October 2022 . en.
  2. Web site: Sune K. Bergström – Biographical. nobelprize.org. 17 April 2018.
  3. Web site: Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 16 June 2011.
  4. Web site: Sune Bergstrom . 2022-05-19 . www.nasonline.org.
  5. Web site: APS Member History . 2022-05-19 . search.amphilsoc.org.
  6. Web site: Sune Bergstrom. www.casinapioiv.va. 17 April 2018.
  7. Web site: January 2006 . Regeringens belöningsmedaljer och regeringens utmärkelse: Professors namn . https://web.archive.org/web/20211102152834/https://www.regeringen.se/contentassets/61bab671f59a46af81cb11ee99e0d0eb/regeringens-beloningsmedaljer-och-regeringens-utmarkelse-professors-namn . 2021-11-02 . 2022-05-18 . Regeringskansliet . sv.
  8. News: Wright . Pearce . 2004-08-18 . Sune Bergstrom . . 2022-10-04.
  9. Web site: 2022-10-03 . Paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo Picks Up Nobel Prize for Human Origins Research . 2022-10-03 . Gizmodo . en-us.
  10. Kolbert . Elizabeth . 2011-08-15 . Sleeping with the Enemy . The New Yorker.
  11. Web site: 818 (Sveriges statskalender / 1963) . 2022-10-03 . runeberg.org . sv.
  12. News: TT . 2004-08-16 . Svensk Nobelpristagare avliden . sv . Svenska Dagbladet . 2022-10-03 . 1101-2412.