Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born 1934), Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate. Samuelsson was educated in Sweden, where he spent most of his career. Samuelsson shared the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sune K. Bergstrom and John R. Vane. The share of the Nobel was awarded for Samuelsson's work on prostaglandins and related biologically active substances. Photograph from Sheldon G. Cohen.