TORVARD C. LAURENT
Torvard C. Laurent (b. 1930 in Stockholm, Sweden) is Professor Emeritus of Medical and Physiological Chemistry at the University of Uppsala. He was educated at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He is a Member and former President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is currently a Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and Chairman of the Council of the Nobel Foundation. He is also Scientific Secretary of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Professor Laurent is a Member of the Academia Europaea (London) and the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europea (Salzburg). He has been much decorated and has received many honors, including the King Carl XVI Gustaf's Gold Medal in 1994…