Karolinska Institutet

The Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Caroline Institute) is a medical university in Stockholm, founded in 1810.

Notable alumni or faculty

• Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848; professor at KI), invented modern chemical notation and is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; discoverer of the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium.
• Carl Gustaf Mosander (1792-1858; student of Berzelius, his successor 1836), chemist, discoverer of the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.
• Gustaf Retzius (1842-1919), anatomist (Progessor 1877-1890)
• Karl Oskar Medin (1847-1928), paediatrician, famous for his study of poliomyelitis (Professor 1883-1914)
• Hugo Theorell (1903-1982), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1955
• Torsten Wiesel (1924-), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1981
• Pehr Edman (1916-1977), chemist (Med. dr 1946). Cf. Edman degradation
• Lars Leksell (1907-1986), physician, inventor of radiosurgery and the Gamma Knife.
• Sune Bergström (1916-2004), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John Robert Vane).
• Bengt I. Samuelsson (b. 1934), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Sune Bergström and John Robert Vane).
• Ragnar Granit (1900-1991), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1967.
• Göran Liljestrand (1886-1968), physiologist and pharmacologist.
• Ulf von Euler (1905-1983), physiologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1970.
• Rebecka Liljeberg (b. 1981), actress (Fucking Åmål etc.), medical student at KI.