Count Gösta Carl Henrik Ehrensvärd, (10 January 1910 – 13 July 1980) was a
Swedish
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chemist.
Ehrensvärd graduated with a Ph.D. in physiological chemistry from
Stockholm University College in 1942, and was simultaneously awarded the title as
Docent
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. He became
Docent
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in biochemistry at
Karolinska Institute in 1948,
Docent
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in medicinal chemistry and biochemistry in 1949-1950, and
Docent
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in biochemistry at Stockholm University College in 1950. He was Laborator
[Laborator: Academic rank immediately below Professor. See: :sv:Laborator (in Swedish)] between 1952 and 1956, and was appointed
Professor of biochemistry at
Lund University in 1956. He was elected to the
Royal Physiographic Society in Lund in 1956, and to the
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1964.
Family
Gösta Ehrensvärd was son of
vice admiral, count
Gösta Ehrensvärd and Anna Ehrensvärd, née Enell. In 1934, he married Ingalill Rydh, and in 1957 to Ursula Breithaupt.
Sources
''
Vem är det
''Vem är det'', with the subtitle ''Svensk biografisk handbok'', is a Swedish " Who's Who" biographical reference publication which has been published in 46 editions since 1912.
References
External links''Vem är det''at Project Runeberg
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: Svensk biografisk handbok 1963'', Ed. Ingeborg Burling, P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm, 1962, p. 251.
References
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1910 births
1980 deaths
Swedish chemists
Academic staff of Lund University
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Members of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund
Swedish counts