Bengt I. Samuelsson

Bengt Samuelsson
Born	Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson 21 May 1934 Halmstad, Sweden
Died	7 July 2024 (aged 90) Mölle, Sweden
Alma mater	Lund University
Known for	prostaglandins
Awards	Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1975) Rosenstiel Award (1980) Heinrich Wieland Prize (1981) Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1982) ForMemRS (1990)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry

Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (21 May 1934 – 7 July 2024) was a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about prostaglandins and related substances.^[2][3]

Samuelsson died on 7 July 2024 in Mölle, Sweden from heart disease at the age of 90.^[4][5]

1. ↑ "Professor Bengt Samuelsson ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-08.
2. ↑ Raju, T N (1999), "The Nobel chronicles. 1982: Sune Karl Bergström (b 1916); Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (b 1934); John Robert Vane (b 1927)", Lancet, vol. 354, no. 9193 (published 27 November 1999), p. 1914, doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)76884-7, PMID 10584758, S2CID 54236400
3. ↑ Swedish Medical Association's Jubilee Award
4. ↑ "Svenske Nobelpristagaren Bengt Samuelsson död". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 2024-07-07. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
5. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2024-04-05. Retrieved 2024-07-08.