Arvid Carlsson

E513328

Arvid Carlsson was a Swedish pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering research on the neurotransmitter dopamine and its role in Parkinson’s disease.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Arvid Carlsson canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
human
neuroscientist
pharmacologist
academicDegree Doctor of Medicine
awardReceived Japan Prize NERFINISHED
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize NERFINISHED
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Wolf Prize in Medicine NERFINISHED
countryOfBirth Sweden
countryOfCitizenship Sweden
countryOfDeath Sweden NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1923-01-25
dateOfDeath 2018-06-29
educatedAt Lund University NERFINISHED
employer University of Gothenburg NERFINISHED
familyName Carlsson NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork neurochemistry
neuropharmacology
neuroscience
pharmacology
givenName Arvid NERFINISHED
hasCitizenship Kingdom of Sweden NERFINISHED
influenced development of L-DOPA therapy for Parkinson’s disease
knownFor development of dopamine-based treatment for Parkinson’s disease
discovering the role of dopamine in the brain
elucidating the role of dopamine in Parkinson’s disease
research on dopamine as a neurotransmitter
languageSpoken English
Swedish
memberOf Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Swedish Society for Medical Research NERFINISHED
nationality Swedish
NobelPrizeCategory Physiology or Medicine NERFINISHED
NobelPrizeMotivation discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
NobelPrizeYear 2000
notableConcept dopamine hypothesis of Parkinson’s disease
role of dopamine in motor control
placeOfBirth Uppsala NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Gothenburg NERFINISHED
positionHeld professor of pharmacology
researchFocus dopamine
monoamine neurotransmitters
serotonin
sexOrGender male
sharedNobelPrizeWith Eric Kandel NERFINISHED
Paul Greengard NERFINISHED
workLocation Gothenburg NERFINISHED

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.