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Bengt Samuelsson is a Swedish biochemist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sune Bergström and John Vane. He was recognized for his extensive research on prostaglandins and related substances, including the discovery of leukotrienes. Samuelsson elucidated the chemical ste...
Sune Bergström was a Swedish biochemist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt Samuelsson and John Vane. He was awarded the prize for his foundational research in isolating and determining the chemical structures of prostaglandins. Bergström's work demonstrated the biol...
Ulf von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Julius Axelrod and Bernard Katz. He received the award for identifying norepinephrine as the principal neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nervous system. Euler's research focus...
Hugo Theorell was a Swedish biochemist who received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking research on oxidation enzymes. Working at the Karolinska Institute, he successfully isolated and characterized the active components of enzymes such as yellow cytochrome and alco...
