Brändén, Carl-Ivar, 1934-2004

found: Brändén, H. Livets molekyler, c1992:title page (Carl-Ivar Brändén) page 4 of cover (prof. i molekylärbiologi, Lantbruksuniv. i Uppsala)

found: Carbon dioxide fixation and reduction in biological and model systems, 1994:title page (Carl-Ivar Brändén)

found: Introduction to protein structure [ER], 2009:title page (Carl Branden; Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)

found: National Library of Sweden authorities, August 5, 2022record 178719 (Brändén, Carl-Ivar, 1934-2004; variant: Branden, Carl, 1934-2004; nationality: Sweden; description: excerpt from Lantbruksuniv's teaching register Oct. 92: ""L26, Institutionen för molekylärbiologi. Prefekt och professor: Brändén, Carl-Ivar, FD, prof i molekylärbiologi, 79 (72), f 340514 ...")

found: Nature, May-June 2004:page 714 (Carl-Ivar Brändén (1934-2004); born in 1934 in a tiny village in Lapland; he was awarded a state fellowship for university studies in Uppsala, where he also gained his PhD, which dealt with the crystallography of inorganic metallic salts; a course in biochemistry resulted in a desire to apply his knowledge of computing and crystallography to biological molecules; he obtained a year's placement at the new Laboratory of Molecular Biology, near Cambridge, from 1962 to 1963; this became decisive in shaping his future career, in which he used structural studies to elucidate protein function; when he returned to Sweden in 1963 he was appointed an associate professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala; the Swedish Research Council awarded him a full professorship in molecular biology at the University of Agricultural Sciences in 1970; he co-wrote Introduction to protein structure (1991); he became one of the scientific advisers to the Swedish government, and served nine years on the Nobel Committee for Chemistry; many international appointments followed, culminating with the directorship of research in life sciences at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, from 1992 to 1997; he died on April 28, 2004)