Person

Edman, Pehr Victor (1916 - 1977)

FAA FRS

Born
14 April 1916
Stockholm, Sweden
Died
19 March 1977
Munich, Germany
Occupation
Medical scientist

Summary

Pehr Edman worked in the area of protein biochemistry. He was educated at the Karolinska Institute where he remained for a year after graduating and then spent a long period of war service in the medical corps of the Swedish Army. Edman came to Australia in 1957 to work as Director of St Vincent's School of Medical Research, Melbourne and returned to Europe in 1972 as Director of Protein Chemistry I at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry.

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Chronology

1938
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Karolinska Institute in Sweden
1946
Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Med.Lic., Karolinska Institute
1946 - 1947
Career position - Scientists in the Northrop-Kunitz laboratory, Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in Princeton, USA
1947 - 1957
Career position - Associate Professor, University of Lund, Sweden
1957 - 1972
Career position - Inaugural John Holt Director of Research at St Vincent's School of Medical Research in Melbourne
1965
Life event - Granted Australian citizenship
1968
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1968
Award - Britannica Australia Science Prize
1971
Award - Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Physicians and Surgeons
1972 - 1977
Career position - Director of Protein Chemistry I, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
1974 -
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)

Archival resources

St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Archives and Heritage Centre

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Blombäck, Birger, 'Edman, Pehr Victor' in New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Koertge, Noretta, ed., vol. 2 (Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008), pp. 347-353. Details
  • Morgan, F. J., 'Edman, Pehr Victor (1916-1977), biochemist and medical researcher' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 78-79. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140089b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

  • 'Our History', in St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research website, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, 2024, https://www.svi.edu.au/about/our-history/. Details
  • Egan, Bryan, Ways of a Hospital: St Vincent's Melbourne 1890s-1990s (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993). Pages 208-213. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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