Sweden

Torbjörn Caspersson

1979 Balzan Prize for Biology

For his fundamental studies on protein metabolism and nucleic acids, culminating in a method for identifying specific bands on individual chromosomes by ultraviolet microscopy, thereby creating a new tool for the study of evolution.

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

* 1910 † 1997

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