Örjan Thomas Ouchterlony (January 14, 1914, Stockholm – September 25, 2004) was a Swedish bacteriologist and immunologist who is credited with the creation of the
Ouchterlony double immuno diffusion
Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion (also known as passive double immunodiffusion) is an immunological technique used in the detection, identification and quantification of antibodies and antigens, such as immunoglobulins and extractable nu ...
test in the 1940s. He was trained at
Karolinska Institute
The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led Medical school, medical university in Solna Municipality, Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. ...
, where his received his medical doctorate. He worked at Sweden's State Bacteriology Laboratory from 1935 to 1952.
[ (The cover of the May 1986 issue pictures Professor Ouchterlony and an Ouchterlony plate.)] Ouchterlony was a professor of
bacteriology Bacteriology is the branch and specialty of biology that studies the morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria as well as many other aspects related to them. This subdivision of microbiology involves the identification, classificat ...
at the Medical Faculty of
Gothenburg University
The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 s ...
from 1952 to 1980 and was elected a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1968.
In addition to his laboratory work, he did research in field epidemiology of infectious diseases and worked and lectured in Africa and the United States, as well as in several countries in Europe.
[ Upon his retirement in 1980, the successor to his professorial chair was Jan Holmgren.
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Swedish bacteriologists
Swedish immunologists
Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg
Karolinska Institute alumni
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1914 births
2004 deaths
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