Bengt I. Samuelsson

Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson ( born May 21, 1934 in Halmstad ) is a Swedish biochemist who, along with Sune Karl Bergström and Sir John Robert Vane was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on prostaglandins and closely related biologically active substances.

He studied medicine at the University of Lund and, after a few years at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, where he also studied medicine in addition to the biochemistry and in 1960 his doctoral dissertation completed it and got a job as a lecturer. After a year, among other guest researcher at Harvard University, he was appointed later at the Karolinska Institute Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiological Chemistry. From 1978 to 1983 he was there also Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and subsequently to 1995 rector of the Karolinska Institutet. In 1981 he was awarded a Gairdner Foundation International Award. Today, he is chairman of the Nobel Foundation.