Word: beckenham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Swede shared the award and $157,500 with two other pioneers of PG research: Bengt Samuelsson, 48, a former student of Bergström's and his colleague at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, and British Pharmacologist John Vane, 55, of Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham, England. All three received the news in Boston, where they were helping to celebrate Harvard Medical School's bicentennial. All three professed surprise at the early-morning call from Stockholm. Though Bergstrom is chairman of the Nobel Foundation, the post is largely administrative and plays no part in the selection...