Göran Liljestrand

Göran Liljestrand (1886 to 1968) was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. Born in Gothenburg, he studied at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, took his medical candidate degree in 1909 and his doctorate in 1917, and became a docent of physiology there the same year. He was trained as a physiologist under Jöns Johansson but became known chiefly as a pharmacologist, and he held the professorship in pharmacology and physiology at the Karolinska Institute from 1927 to 1951. His collaboration with Ulf von Euler, who later won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and with Yngve Zotterman is the setting for the finding named the Euler-Liljestrand mechanism. He served for forty years as secretary of the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute and was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1938.