Bruce Logan interviews Bo Malmstrom on Nobel Prize selection

Bo Malstrom was a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry 1972-1988 and its chairman 1977-1988.

On October 17, 1995 following an International Visiting Committee meeting at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, Mr. Malmstrong was interviewed by fellow Visiting Committee member Bruce Logan. Mr. Malmstrong had attended Muhlenberg on a scholarshiop in 1946. At the time of the interview Arthur Taylor was president of Muhlenberg College.

Bo Malmström (b. 1927, d. 2000) was Professor of Biochemistry at Göteborg University in 1963-1993. Apart from his doctorate from Uppsala University, he held honorary doctorates from Muhlenberg College in the US and from Utrecht University.

He was Visiting Professor at University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley, Utrecht University and California Institute of Technology, and he also carried out research at Universitá di Roma and Universitá di Firenze. He published over 200 papers, particularly in inorganic biochemistry and bioenergetics.

His main interest in later years was the terminal enzyme of respiration, cytochrome oxidase, and its function as a proton pump. In 1996 he started investigating protein folding of redox-active metalloproteins, especially copper proteins.

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