Word: uppsala
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Refaat el Sayed seemed to come out of nowhere to become one of Sweden's most successful business executives. Born into a wealthy Egyptian family, he moved to Uppsala, near Stockholm, to study agricultural science in 1968. El Sayed attracted little attention until 1981, when he borrowed $5.3 million and bought a money-losing Swedish drug company called Fermenta. In four years he transformed it into a leading producer of antibiotics. His company's 1985 profits hit $43.2 million, and Sweden's national TV network honored him as the country's man of the year...
...troubles began in November, when Bjorn Gillberg, a former professor at Sweden's Ultuna Agricultural University, read a FORTUNE profile of Fermenta. The story noted that el Sayed had earned a Ph.D. in microbiology at Uppsala University in 1973. In reality, el Sayed had been at Ultuna that year, working in Gillberg's lab. Gillberg investigated the discrepancy and discovered that el Sayed had also falsely claimed to have a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of California, Davis...
Weiner, who hails from Uppsala, Sweden, has been the brightest star of the four freshmen on the six-man squad. He, like Kealey, is optimistic about the squad's future...
...very different from the inmates," he says. "I was also uneasy about the profession of medicine. It was there that the question was planted: What is medical power? What is the authority that permits it?" After teaching psychopathology in Paris, and then French at Sweden's University of Uppsala, the restless young Foucault held official positions in Warsaw and Hamburg. Out of his wanderings, internal and external, came Madness and Civilization, which begins with a poetic evocation of the medieval ships of fools-those wandering hulks that really did bear captive cargoes of madmen away from their own communities...
Half of the physics prize will go to Kai Siegbahn, 63, of Sweden's Uppsala University, who follows in the footsteps of his late father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...