Sune Bergström

Karl Sune Detlof Bergström was a Swedish biochemist, born in 1916. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1965 and its president in 1983, and in 1975 he was appointed to the board of directors of the Nobel Foundation in Sweden. He received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Bengt I. Samuelsson and the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh in 1977. He shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Samuelsson and John R. Vane for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. He was also a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.