A Short Survey of the Scientific Work of Torsten Teorell

Abstract

T'ursten T'eurellwas born in 1905 and already as a schoolboy n', as we used to call him, was interested in chemistry. He had a small laboratory of his own in the basement at home where he collected minerals. His dream was to become a mining engineer. He even practised at a railway laboratory when he was 15. His test in the Swedish language for the matriculation examination dealt with "the law of mass action", a subject that he later on used in a work on antigenantibody interactions.