How a child with a disability became a Nobel Prize winner: Hugo Theorell (1903 - 1982) and his music

Authors

  • Tores Theorell Karolinska Institutet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v13i1.771

Abstract

Hugo Theorell born 1903 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1955. His life with music illustrates how a child who became handicapped by poliomyelitis at the age of three used violin playing as an important stimulus throughout life and how that helped him become a world-famous scientist

Author Biography

Tores Theorell, Karolinska Institutet

Professor emeritus at Karolinska Insti Dep Publ Health

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2021-01-23

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