deaths
August 15, 1982
Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Hugo Theorell
Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Medicine or Physiology, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace.
August 15
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