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Sune Bergström

1916 - 2004

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Karl Sune Detlof Bergström (10 January 1916 – 15 August 2004) was a Swedish biochemist. In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden, and was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, together with Bengt I. Samuelsson. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sune Bergström has received more than 151,912 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Sune Bergström is the 146th most popular chemist (down from 128th in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from Sweden and the 7th most popular Swedish Chemist.

Sune Bergström is most famous for his discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sune Bergström ranks 146 out of 509Before him are Fritz Strassmann, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Robert F. Furchgott, and Kurt Wüthrich. After him are Jerome Karle, Hennig Brand, Ignacy Mościcki, Paul Lauterbur, Stanley Miller, and Paul Flory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sune Bergström ranks 42Before him are Vitaly Ginzburg, Emil Gilels, Raf Vallone, Alexander Prokhorov, Robert F. Furchgott, and Paul Keres. After him are Masaki Kobayashi, P. W. Botha, Dino Risi, Maria Altmann, Michael Gough, and Jacque Fresco. Among people deceased in 2004, Sune Bergström ranks 31Before him are Leônidas, Carlos Kleiber, Estée Lauder, Laura Branigan, Jerry Goldsmith, and Ingrid Thulin. After him are Godfrey Hounsfield, Gérard Debreu, John Vane, Thomas Klestil, Robert Merle, and Matthäus Hetzenauer.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sune Bergström ranks 127 out of 1,612Before him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Björn Andrésen (1955), Ingrid Thulin (1926), Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland (1912), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), and Carl Peter Thunberg (1743). After him are Birgit Nilsson (1918), Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (1934), Gustav, Prince of Vasa (1799), Lennart Johansson (1929), Charles VII of Sweden (1130), and Sigfrid Edström (1870).

Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Sune Bergström ranks 7Before him are Alfred Nobel (1833), Svante Arrhenius (1859), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Arne Tiselius (1902), and Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934). After him are Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Torbern Bergman (1735), and Georg Brandt (1694).