Gunnar Broberg

Gunnar Broberg was professor in History of Science and Ideas at Lund University, Sweden, appointed in 1990. Broberg has written about the compulsory sterilization activities in Sweden and extensively about the scientist Carl Linnaeus. In 2005 he was elected Chair of the Royal Humanistic Scientific Society in Lund. He was the editor of the book Gyllene äpplen, which won the August Prize (Augustpriset) in 1992. In the Spring of 1998, Broberg was a Residential Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.