M. D., Ph. D., Professor Emeritus, Karolinska Institute. Professor and Director of Radiumhemmet, the Department of Non-Surgical Oncology of the Karolinska Hospital and Institute, Stockholm, 1967-1992. Member of the Nobel Assembley 1967-1992. Chairman of the Nobel Assembly for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1984. Audit of the Nobel Foundation 1986-1988. Member of the Swedish Parliament 1991-1994. Chief Editor, Acta Oncologica. International USA Human Rights Educators Network journal.

Publications include: Co-author, Children's Rights: A reference Handbook (1996). Contributor to Samuel Totten, ed., Teaching Holocaust Literature (in preparation) and B. Schwarz & T. DaCoste, eds., The Holocaust: Art, Politics and Education (2000).