Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell (1903-1982)

Awarded the Prize “for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes.”

Swedish biochemist. Theorell was born at Link?ping, Sweden on July 6, 1903. In 1921, he entered the Karolinska Institute and in 1924 he graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine. In 1930 he obtained his M.D. degree at the Karolinska Institute. In 1924 he joined the Staff of the Medico-Chemical Institution. In 1932 he was appointed Associate Professor in Medical and Physiological Chemistry at Uppsala University. In 1936 he was appointed Head of the Biochemical Department of the Nobel Medical Institute. Theorell died on August 15, 1982 in Stockholm.