Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar

WH Brock, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002909

1934– Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize winner who isolated and characterized the prostaglandins.

Keywords: prostaglandins; arachidonic acid; thromboxanes; leucotrienes

 Further Reading
    book Samuelsson BI and Bergström S (1967) Prostaglandins. New York: Interscience Publishers.
    book Samuelsson BI (1993) From studies of biological mechanisms to novel biological mediators. Nobel Lectures in Physiology or Medicine 1981–1990, pp. 114–138. Singapore: World Scientific.
    book Meldrum M (1990) Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology, Fox DM, Meldrum M and Rezak I (eds), pp. 482–485. New York: Garland.
    book Wasson T (1987) Nobel Prize Winners, pp. 919–921. New York: HW Wilson.

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Brock, WH(Apr 2001) Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002909]