Carl Gustaf Bernhard

He was a professor at the Karolinska Institute from 1948 through 1971.^[1]

In 1968, he was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He served as Permanent Secretary of the Academy during the years 1973 through 1981. In this period, he developed a special interest in one of his predecessors—Jons Jacob Berzelius. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.^[3]

Bernhard founded the Berzelius Society and published two books on Berzelius:

• 1985 – Med Berzelius bland franska snillen och slocknade vulkaner
• 1993 – Berzelius Europaresenären - bland forskare, prostar och poeter

• This article was translated from the Swedish Wikipedia