Göran Liljestrand

Göran Liljestrand ( born April 16, 1886 in Gothenburg, † January 16, 1968 ) was a Swedish pharmacologist. He is best known as co-discoverer of the Euler - Liljestrand reflex (1946 ), together with Ulf von Euler. He worked among other things as a professor at the Karolinska Institute in 1927 until 1951. Beginning he was physiology, and in 1917 wrote a physiological thesis ( studies of the work of breathing ) Johan Erik Johansson, but he moved in the 1920s to the pharmacology.

He was from 1918 for more than 40 years in the Committee secretary of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1938 he was elected a full member of the committee and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The German Pharmacological Society awarded him the 1962 Schmiedeberg badge.