Karolinska Institutet - Notable Alumni or Faculty

Notable Alumni or Faculty

  • Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848; professor at KI), invented modern chemical notation and is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; discoverer of the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium.
  • Carl Gustaf Mosander (1792–1858; student of chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, his successor 1836), chemist, discoverer of the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.
  • Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919), anatomist (Professor 1877-1890)
  • Karl Oskar Medin (1847–1928), paediatrician, famous for his study of poliomyelitis (Professor 1883-1914)
  • Ivar Wickman (1872–1914), pediatrician, pupil of Medin, polio expert
  • Herbert Olivecrona (1891–1980), founder of Swedish neurosurgery
  • Hugo Theorell (1903–1982), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1955
  • Torsten Wiesel (1924-), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1981
  • Pehr Edman (1916–1977), chemist (Med. dr 1946). Cf. Edman degradation
  • Lars Leksell (1907–1986), physician, inventor of radiosurgery and the Gamma Knife.
  • Sune Bergström (1916–2004), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John Robert Vane).
  • Bengt I. Samuelsson (b. 1934), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Sune Bergström and John Robert Vane).
  • Ragnar Granit (1900–1991), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1967.
  • Göran Liljestrand (1886–1968), physiologist and pharmacologist.
  • Ulf von Euler (1905–1983), physiologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1970.
  • Sven Ivar Seldinger (1921–1998), radiologist, inventor of the Seldinger technique.
  • Rolf Luft (1914–2007), professor, endocrinologist.
  • Tomas Lindahl, cancer researcher and winner of the Royal Medal.

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