Birth Name:

Fritiof S. Sjöstrand

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Nov 05, 1912

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

Age:

111

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

12°

Sco

40'

About Fritiof S. Sjöstrand

Fritiof Stig Sjöstrand (5 November 1912 – 6 April 2011) was a Swedish physician and histologist born in Stockholm. He started his medical education at Karolinska Institutet in 1933, where he received his Ph.D. Karolinska Institutet in 1944. Sjöstrand worked as an assistant at the department of pharmacology, where he first had used polarization microscopy, he first heard about the new method of electron microscopy in 1938, within which he would become a pioneer. Manne Siegbahn at the Nobel Institute for Physics had planned to build an electron microscope in Sweden, and Sjöstrand got involved in the project to explore its use in medical research. The main challenge was to produce sufficiently thin samples, and Sjöstrand's method for producing ultrathin tissue samples was published in Nature in 1943. However, it seemed that research based on electron microscopy would be too time-consuming for a Ph.D. thesis, so his 1944 thesis was based on fluorescence spectroscopy. In 1947-1948, he received a scholarship to further study electron microscopy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Biology. Back in Sweden, he received funding to build up an electron microscopy research laboratory. In 1959, Sjöstrand was both offered a position as professor of histology at Karolinska Institutet, and as professor at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He chose UCLA, because conditions for research and funding were better there.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Fritiof S. Sjöstrand: Sun 12 Scorpio, Moon 26 Virgo, Mercury 1 Sagittarius, Venus 14 Sagittarius, Mars 12 Scorpio, Jupiter 16 Sagittarius, Saturn 2 Gemini, Uranus 29 Capricorn, Neptune 26 Cancer, Pluto 29 Gemini, Sun Conjunct Mars, Mercury Opposition Saturn, Mercury Quincunx Pluto, Sun Semi Sextile Venus, Sun Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Mercury Sextile Uranus, Venus Semi Sextile Mars, Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Uranus, Mars Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Jupiter Semi Square Uranus, Saturn Trine Uranus, Uranus Opposition Neptune, Uranus Quincunx Pluto

Categories related to Fritiof S. Sjöstrand: University of California, 2011 deaths, Los Angeles faculty, November 5 births, Karolinska Institute alumni, Karolinska Institute faculty, 1912 births, Histologists, Swedish pathologists, Swedish biologists