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.