Despite his pensioning, Arvid is
still fully active as a researcher, and research
takes a lot of his time. As often as he can
however and when the weather is fine Arvid goes
to the familys country house in Onsala,
south of Gothenburg. There he relaxes with
gardening, sea-bathing, and being together with
his family. All the year round Arvid devotes
himself to solving crosswords in his spare time,
to keep his brain going. He also likes to listen
to classical music as well as Louis Armstrong.
BACKGROUND
Arvid Carlsson was born in Uppsala, Sweden, on
January 25, 1923. He entered medical studies at
the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1941, and
became a Doctor of Medicine, "M.D."
(corresponding to American Ph.D.), in 1951. In
1959 Arvid Carlsson was made a Professor of
Pharmacology at the University of Gothenburg,
Sweden. He became emeritus in 1989.
Arvid
Carlsson is an author of several hundred
peer-reviewed journal articles and the recipient
of numerous awards and honours. Apart from the
Nobel Prize of medicine and physiology he has
been awarded the Japan Prize in Psychology and
Psychiatry, The Research Prize of the Lundbeck
Foundation (Denmark) and the Lieber Prize for
research in schizophrenia (USA). Arvid Carlsson
is a "Foreign Associate Member" of the
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of
Sciences, USA. He is also a member of the French
Legion of Honour, and an honorary member of
several Swedish and foreign Academies of
Sciences.
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