Bengt Nordén#
| Membership Number: | 2307 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.chalmers.se/chem/EN/divisions/physical-chemistry/nordenlab/bengt-norden |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 1979 Chair Professorship of Physical Chemistry of Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
- 1978-1979 Acting Chair Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Lund
- 1972-1979 Associate Prof (Docent) of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Lund
- 1971 PhD
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanisms of molecular recognition and function
- DNA-supramolecular structures with small as well as large molecules: chiral substitution-inert metal complexes and peptide nucleic acids
- Spectroscopy with polarized light (flow dichroism) addressing biomolecular structures, e.g. 3D structure of DNA-recombinase complex in solution
- Cell-penetrating pepides, membrane translocation mechanisms.
Honours and Awards
- The Fabian Gyllenborg’s Prize for best PhD thesis in Lund (1972)
- The Goran Gustafsson Prize for Chemistry (1992)
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Award of 2008
- The Svante Arrhenius Gold Medal of 2009
- Honorary Professor of University of Sichuan (Chengdu) (2006)
- Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry (2001-2003)
- Chairman of the Council of the European Research Councils’ Chemistry Committees (CERC) 2006-2007
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1991)
- The Royal Physiographic Society (Lund) (1992)
- The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences (Gothenburg) (1984)
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2005)
- Academia Europaea (2003)
- The National Academy of Sciences of Germany (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina) (2006)
- The Academy of Engineering Sciences in Finland (2006)
- The Norwegian Academy of Sciences (2007)
