Kåre Bremer (born 17 January 1948) is a

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and

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. He has also been

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Career

Professor Bremer received his doctorate in Botany from Stockholm University in 1976, where he worked as

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and

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in the department from 1972–1975, and full-time from 1976. In 1979 he was appointed

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. In 1980 he became

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at the Museum of Natural History in Stockholm in the Department of

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Botany. From 1985–1986 he was also a

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and BA Krukoff Curator of African Botany at the

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. Following this Bremer was installed as

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in 1989, where he also became head of the department from 1992 to 1999, and

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from 1993–1999. From 2001–2004 he was Secretary for Science and Technology Studies at the

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. In January 2004 he left the University of Uppsala to take up a position as Rector (Vice-Chancellor) at Stockholm University on 1 February that year. He is currently professor of Systematic Botany at that university.

Personal life

He is married to his colleague,

Birgitta Bremer Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden. Career Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockholm University, w ...

, and they have two children.

Achievements

Professor Bremer is a board member of the Swedish Association of Universities and Institutes of Higher Education (''Sveriges universitets- och högskoleförbund'', SUHF) and is a member of the

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(''Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien'', KVA). He has been a member of the

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since 1998. In 2006 he received the King's Medal (''Hans Majestät Konungens medalj''), twelfth level with the

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(''Kungliga Serafimerorden''). Swedish Royal Court
The King's Medal 2006 The work of the Bremers at Uppsala University became the basis for the modern system of

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, known as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group ( APG) formed by them and other international flowering plant

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s. The system was published in 1998 largely based on the work of Bremer et al. at

, and was available on the

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in 1996.

Species

Two African species have been named after him, '' Athanasia bremeri'' and '' Pseudoblepharispermum bremeri''.

References

Sources

Personal website: Kåre Bremer

Website: Birgitta Bremer

Harvard Botanist Index
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