Lars Ernster
Lars Ernster · Science & Medicine
Biochemist known for research on mitochondrial function and bioenergetics
1920, Budapest, Hungary — 1998, Stockholm, Sweden
Hungary · Sweden
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Lars Ernster was a Hungarian-Swedish biochemist known for foundational research on mitochondrial function and bioenergetics—how cells convert nutrients into usable energy. Long a professor at Stockholm University, he served on the Nobel Foundation board and influenced the field internationally. He was Jewish, having fled antisemitic persecution in Hungary for Sweden in 1946.
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Biochemist known for research on mitochondrial function and bioenergetics
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