Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell was a Swedish scientist who dedicated his career to enzyme research. Born in Linkoping in 1903, he studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute, took his medical degree in 1930 and was appointed professor of physiological chemistry there. In 1936 he became head of the new Biochemical Department of the Nobel Medical Institute. His work led to pioneering progress on alcohol dehydrogenases, the enzymes that break down alcohol in the liver, and on the toxic effects of sodium fluoride on enzyme cofactors. He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering oxidoreductase enzymes and their effects.
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Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell (6 July 1903
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was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine
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He was born in Linköping as the son of Thure Theorell
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received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1955
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was a Swedish scientist
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dedicated his entire career to enzyme research
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began to study medicine at the Karolinska Institute
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dedicated his entire career to enzyme research
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"year": "1903"
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"awardYear": "1955"
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