Linda Buck - Nobel Prize Winner With Roots in Värmland

On December 10, 2004, Linda Buck received one of the halves for the year's Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine from King Carl XVI Gustaf. Together with Richard Axel she was honored for her discovery of how the human sense of smell works. Along with the Nobel Award Ceremony festivities, the mass media highlighted Linda Buck's Swedish roots through her maternal grandmother from Karlskoga and her maternal grandfather from Kristinehamn.