Anders Hallberg
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Anders Hallberg (b. 29 April 1945 in Vetlanda) is a Swedish chemist and has been elected rector magnificus of Uppsala University from July 2006, succeeding Bo Sundqvist.
Hallberg is born in Vetlanda, grew up in Tranås and studied at Lund University, where he received his M.Sc. degree in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1980. His dissertation, Methoxythiophenes and Related Systems (1980), was supervised by Prof. Salo Gronowitz.
Hallberg has worked at Lund University and at the pharmaceutical corporation Astra (later merged to become AstraZeneca) in Lund. He was appointed professor of Medicinal chemistry at Uppsala University in 1990, became Head of the Department of Organic Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1991 and was Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy 1996-2002.
He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala 1994, of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Uppsala in 2004, of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund in 2005, of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2006, and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2007.
In February 2007, as Rector of the Uppsala University, Anders Hallberg was involved in forced resignations of two tenured math professors, Oleg Viro and Burglind Juhl-Jöricke, that resulted in an international controversy.[1][2][3]
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- ^ Swedish University, Alleging Culture Clash, Forces Out 2 Tenured Foreign Professors, Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 53, Issue 38, Page A49; May 25, 2007
- ^ Two mathematicians forced to resign at Uppsala University, Sweden, Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, page 15, June, 2007
- ^ "Two mathematicians forced to resign at Uppsala University, Sweden. The European Mathematical Society is very concerned" EMS press release, June, 2007
