Gösta Pettersson (biochemist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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biochemist from Sweden
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Place of Birth: Varberg, Halland County, Sweden
About Gösta Pettersson (biochemist)
- Gösta Pettersson is an emeritus professor in biochemistry at Lund University, Sweden.
- He was born in 1937 in Varberg, Sweden.
- He gained his PhD in 1966 based on a thesis about natural products.
- He developed methods in enzyme kinetics based on mathematical modelling and proper statistical analysis, especially for the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase.
- He has written a text book on enzyme kinetics He also made contributions in control theory of biochemical reaction networks, a predecessor to systems biology.
- After retirement, he has been engaged in the question of global warming and has published a critical book against alarmists, in which the greenhouse effect is critically discussed out of a scientific and kinetic perspective.
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