103393 | SWEDEN & FRANCE. Society of Biochemistry bronze award Medal.

103393  |  SWEDEN & FRANCE. Society of Biochemistry bronze award Medal. Issued 1964 for the society's 50th anniversary and awarded to Hugo Theorell (63mm, 123.59 g, 12h). By Albert David at the Paris mint.

 

BIOCHIMIE, draped female figure right, representing biochemistry, holding up double helix; atoms representing various elements (potassium, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen) around // CINQUANTENAIRE DE LA SOCIETE DE CHIMIE BIOLOGIQUE / FONDEE EN 1914, "ENZYMES, LIPIDES, GLUCIDES, ELEMENTS, MINERAUX, PROTIDES, HORMONES, VITAMINES" arranged multiple times in various fonts and directions; "HUGO THEORELL" engraved below. Edge: «cornucopia» BRONZE.

 

MdP –. Mint State. Brown surfaces, with a good deal of brilliance in the fields. A great allegorical type pertaining to the field of biochemistry and awarded to a Nobel laureate.

 

As this medal would indicate, Hugo Theorell was an accomplished Swedish scientist in the field of biochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1955 for his discovery of oxidoreductase enzymes and their effects. Previously, he was appointed as the head of the Nobel Medical Institute's Biochemical Department in 1936, becoming the first researcher related to the Institute to garner the prize.

 

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