Category:Torbjörn Caspersson

**Torbjörn Caspersson**
	Swedish biologist (1910–1997)
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Name in native language	Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson;
Date of birth	15 October 1910; Q10589633
Date of death	7 December 1997; Q10660414
Country of citizenship	Sweden;
Educated at	Stockholm University;
Occupation	biologist; university teacher; geneticist; physicist;
Employer	Karolinska Institutet;
Member of	Royal Society (Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1978–); German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Field of work	genetics;
Award received	Balzan Prize (1979); Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1977); Björkén Prize (1945); ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award (1988); Schleiden Medal (1973); Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1978); AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research (1978);
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	Q457472; ISNI: 0000000114997532; VIAF ID: 163316691; GND ID: 128133880; Library of Congress authority ID: no2009147993; IdRef ID: 074733222; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 072929154; NUKAT ID: n2009103780
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Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson (15 October 1910 – 7 December 1997) was a Swedish cytologist and geneticist. He was born in Motala and attended the University of Stockholm, where he studied medicine and biophysics.