George Klein (biologist)

George Klein (born Klein Gyorgy, 1925 to 2016) was a Hungarian-Swedish microbiologist and public intellectual who specialised in cancer research. He held a chair in tumour biology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm from 1957 to 1992, a post created for him, and sat on the Nobel Assembly there from 1967 to 1993. With his wife Eva Klein he laid the foundation for modern tumour immunology in the 1960s. He published well over a thousand papers and wrote many books in Swedish, including essays on the Holocaust in Hungary; in 1944 he escaped from a deportation train in Budapest. Prizes included the Harvey Prize in 1975 and the Sloan Prize in 1979.