Bengt I. Samuelsson

Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson was a Swedish biochemist, born in Halmstad in 1934, who studied at Lund University and became professor of medical and physiological chemistry at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1973. He was president of the Karolinska Institute from 1983 to 1995 and chairman of the Nobel Foundation from 1993 to 2005. He shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances, which he described as a control system for the cells that takes part in many biological functions. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1990.