Bengt Samuelsson#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 60 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 1988 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Bengt Samuelsson passed away July 5, 2024.
Positions Held
- 1983 - 1995 Rector, Royal Caroline Institute
- 1978 - 1983 Dean of the Medical Faculty, Royal Caroline Institute
- 1973 Professor of Medical and Physiological Chemistry at Royal Caroline Institute
- 1967 - 1972 Professor of Veterinary Medical Chemistry at University of Stockholm
- 1961 - 1966 Teacher of Medical Chemistry at Royal Caroline Institute
- 1961 MD at Royal Caroline Institute
Fields of Scholarship
- Transformation products of arachidonic acid
- Cholesterol metabolism
Honours and Awards
- 1968 Swedish Medical Association's Jubilee Award, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1970 Anders Jahres Award, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
- 1975 Louisa Gross Horwitz Award, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
- 1976 Intrascience Medalist, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.
- 1977 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, New York, U.S.A.
- 1980 Ciba Geigy Drew Award in Biomedical Research, Madison, New Jersey, U.S A.
- 1981 Swedish Medical Association’s Jubilee Award
- 1981 Heinrich Wieland Prize, Munich, West Germany
- 1981 The Gairdner Foundation Award, Toronto, Canada
- 1981 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award in Basic Medical Research, Brandeis University, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
- 1982 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Sune Bergström and John Vane
- 1982 Honorary Member of Swedish Medical Association, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1982 Member of International Association of Allergology & Clinical Immunology Award
- 1982 Waterford Bio-Medical Science Award, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
- 1982 American Chemical Society Division of Medical Chemistry Award
- 1982 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1982 The Bror Holmberg Medal of the Swedish Chemical Society
- 1989 Member of the Académie des sciences, Paris
- 1990 Foreign Member, The Royal Society