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Mutagenesis Advance Access originally published online on January 30, 2006
Mutagenesis 2006 21(1):1-2; doi:10.1093/mutage/gel003
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the UK Environmental Mutagen Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

OBITUARY

Lars Ehrenberg (1921–2005)

Margareta Törnqvist

Department of Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Fredrik Granath

Clinical Epidemiology Unit (M9:01), Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-170 76 Solna, Sweden

Bernard T. Golding

School of Natural Sciences—Chemistry, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NEI 7RU

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Lars Ehrenberg, professor emeritus at Stockholm University, passed away in June 2005, a short time after his 84th birthday. Ehrenberg's main research fields were radiobiology and chemical carcinogenesis, where he was a pioneer and made numerous contributions of vast significance. His research was characterized by quantitative and interdisciplinary approaches at a fundamental level for understanding problems, e.g. with regard to cancer risk assessment of chemicals. The research in this area has rightly received international recognition. Ehrenberg's research work has inspired many colleagues and has led to many new developments. He was a scientist with an unusually broad, yet deep knowledge.

He grew up in Falun in Dalecarlia in Sweden where his father was a physician. From 1941 he studied at Lund University in the south of Sweden, while simultaneously, due to the ongoing war in Europe, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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