Greta Hammarsten (née Norrbin) was a Swedish physician, biochemist and professor of clinical chemistry at Södersjukhuset.[1] She was born March 22, 1896 in Stockholm and died July 17, 1964 in Stockholm.[2]
Education and employment
editHammarsten studied microchemistry in Graz in 1924 and chemistry at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen in 1927–28 and 1930–31. She enrolled at Lund University in 1930 and became a doctor of medicine in 1940. She subsequently had appointments at Lund University, Karolinska Institutet, Hässleby sanatorium and finally became chief physician at the clinical central laboratory at Södersjukhuset from 1945.[2]
Scientific contributions
editHammarsten wrote 'Calciumoxalat als Steinbildner i den Harnwegen' (Calcium oxalate as a stone builder in the urinary tract) (doctoral dissertation 1937) and 80 works in physical and physiological chemistry as well as nutritional physiology. Her work focused the chemistry of kidney stone formation although she also studied blood and liver disease.[2] She was the editor-in-chief of the work "Kliniska laborationsmetoder" (Clinical Laboratory Methods).[3]
Personal life
editGreta Hammarsten is buried at Norra begravningsplatsen outside Stockholm. She was married to Einar Hammarsten in 1918–28.
- ^ "skbl.se - Greta Hammarsten". skbl.se. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
- ^ a b c "Greta Hammarsten - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ Kliniska laborationsmetoder: Huvudred.: Greta Hammarsten. 2:a uppl (in Swedish). 1953.