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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ulf Svante von Euler (7 February 1905 - 9 March 1983) was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters. Ulf S. von Euler was born in Stockholm, the son of two noted scientists, Dr. Hans von Euler-Chelpin, a professor of chemistry, and Dr. Astrid Cleve, a professor of botany and geology. His father was German and the recipient of Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1929, and his maternal grandfather was Per Teodor Cleve, Professor of Chemistry at the Uppsala University, and the discoverer of the chemical elements thulium and holmium.Enjoying such a privileged family environment in science, education and research, it is not surprising that young Ulf would become a scientist, too, so he went to study medicine at the Karolinska Institute in 1922. At Karolinska, he worked under Robin Fåhraeus in blood sedimentation and rheology and did research work on the pathophysiology of vasoconstriction. He presented his doctoral thesis in 1930, and was appointed as Assistant Professor in Pharmacology in the same year, with the support of G. Liljestrand. ... Read more

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Chapters: Torsten Wiesel, Ulf Von Euler, Arvid Carlsson, Lars Leksell, Tomas Hökfelt, Peter Eriksson, Sten Grillner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Torsten Nils Wiesel (born June 3, 1924) was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres. Wiesel was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children. In 1947, he began his scientific career in Carl Gustaf Bernhard's laboratory at the Karolinska Institute, where he received his medical degree in 1954. He went on to teach in the Institute's department of physiology and worked in the child psychiatry unit of the Karolinska Hospital. In 1955 he moved to the United States to work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine under Stephen Kuffler. Wiesel began a fellowship in ophthalmology, and in 1958 he became an assistant professor. That same year, he met David Hubel, beginning a collaboration that would last over twenty years. In 1959 Wiesel and Hubel moved to Harvard University. He became an instructor in pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, beginning a 24-year career with the university. He became professor in the new department of neurobiology in 1968 and its chair in 1971. In 1983, Wiesel joined the faculty of Rockefeller University as Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology. He was president of the university from 1991 to 1998. At Rockefeller University he remains the director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior. Since 2000 he has served as Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Sci...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=803249 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Ivar Wickman, Ulf Von Euler, Ragnar Granit, Hans Rosling, Gustaf Retzius, Lars Leksell, Ewa Björling, Tomas Hökfelt, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Arne Ljungqvist, Sune Bergström, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Anders Retzius, Gunnar Von Heijne, Johan Wilhelm Dalman, Hans Christian Jacobaeus, Klas Kärre, Göran Liljestrand, Göran K. Hansson, Carl Gustaf Bernhard, Viking Björk, Torsten Sjögren, Karl Oskar Medin, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, Sten Grillner, Stephan Rössner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Friherre Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry. He began his career as a physician but his researches in physical chemistry were of lasting significance in the development of the subject. He achieved much in later life as secretary of the Swedish Academy. He is known in Sweden as the Father of Swedish Chemistry. Berzelius was born at Väversunda in Östergötland in Sweden. He lost both his parents at an early age. He was taken care of by relatives in Linköping where he attended the school today known as Katedralskolan. Thereafter he enrolled at the Uppsala University where he learned the profession of medical doctor from 1796 to 1801. He was taught chemistry by Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, the discoverer of tantalum. He worked as apprentice in a pharmacy and with a physician in the Medevi mineral springs. During this time he conducted analysis of the spring water. For his medical studies he examined the influence of galvanic current on several diseases and graduated as M.D. in 1802. He worked as physician near Stockholm until the mine owner...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23701666 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Swedish Neuroscientists, Torsten Wiesel, Ulf Von Euler, Arvid Carlsson, Lars Leksell, A. J. Carlson, Tomas Hökfelt, Magnus Blix, Peter Eriksson, Alarik Frithiof Holmgren, Sten Grillner. Excerpt: Torsten Nils Wiesel (born June 3, 1924) was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres. Wiesel was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children. In 1947, he began his scientific career in Carl Gustaf Bernhard's laboratory at the Karolinska Institute, where he received his medical degree in 1954. He went on to teach in the Institute's department of physiology and worked in the child psychiatry unit of the Karolinska Hospital. In 1955 he moved to the United States to work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine under Stephen Kuffler. Wiesel began a fellowship in ophthalmology, and in 1958 he became an assistant professor. That same year, he met David Hubel, beginning a collaboration that would last over twenty years. In 1959 Wiesel and Hubel moved to Harvard University. He became an instructor in pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, beginning a 24-year career with the university. He became professor in the new department of neurobiology in 1968 and its chair in 1971. In 1983, Wiesel joined the faculty of Rockefeller University as Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology. He was president of the university from 1991 to 1998. At Rockefeller University he remains the director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior. Since 2000 he has serv... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=803249 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Torsten Wiesel, Ivar Wickman, Ulf Von Euler, Lars Leksell, Hugo Theorell, Sven Ivar Seldinger, Pehr Victor Edman, Lars Gyllensten, Carl-Göran Hedén, Tomas Lindahl, Göran Liljestrand, Karl Oskar Medin, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Örjan Ouchterlony. Excerpt:Carl-Göran Hedén Carl-Göran Hedén (September 11, 1920 - June 8, 2009) was a distinguished Swedish scholar in the fields of Microbiology , Biotechnology and microbial physiology, D.Sc., Professor of the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm ), a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1959 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1975, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). He was founder of the first Chair in biotechnology in Sweden . Heden was one of the founders (1968) and first President of the International Organisation for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (IOBB). He was the first active chairman of UNEP /UNESCO /ICRO's Panel on Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, main initiator of UNESCO/UNEP's Microbiological Resource Centers (MIRCEN), one of the organizers of the 1st Global Impact of Applied Microbiology Conference (Stockholm , 1963), founder (1990) and the first Director of the Biofocus Foundation (BF). Since 1976 he was the first director of MIRCEN-Stockholm. Professor Heden was also a President of the WAAS. In 1986 he was honored by the Swedish Inventors Association as "the Inventor of the Year". References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Göran Liljestrand (16 April 1886 16 January 1968), Swedish pharmacologist , known for the discovery of the Euler-Liljestrand mechanism . Liljestrand was born in Gothenburg but finished school at the Norra Real school in Stockholm , before matriculating at the Universit... ... Read more

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