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Obituary: Nils Ringertz, founder of Nobel e-Museum

• Date:   Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:13:27 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
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• From:   Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject:   Obituary: Nils Ringertz, founder of Nobel e-Museum
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Forwarded to STHC-L (The Science, Technology and Health Care 
Archives Internet Forum) from the Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2002. A 
statement from the Nobel Foundation may also be found at:
http://www.nobel.se/nobel/nobel-foundation/press/press-nilsringertz.html .



Nils Ringertz, 69;
Cell Geneticist Founded Nobel Internet Museum

Nils Ringertz, 69, the founder of the Nobel Internet Museum, 
www.nobel.se, and a former secretary of the committee that chooses the 
Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Stockholm of unstated causes.

A doctor specializing in cell genetics, Ringertz taught and helped 
establish the department of cell and molecular biology at Stockholm's 
Karolinska Institute.

He headed the department from 1988 to 1996, and for more than 30 years 
was an editor of the scientific journal Experimental Cell Research.

A member of the Nobel Assembly, Ringertz was Secretary of the Nobel 
medicine committee from 1993 to 1999. He was a member of the board of 
directors of the Nobel Foundation, which administers the Nobel Prizes.

Ringertz was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 1994, Ringertz started a project to put the history of the Nobel 
Prize on the Internet--an effort that became what the Nobel Foundation 
now calls its Nobel e-Museum.

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