Nobel-linked Swedish institute seeks distance from racist past

03/11/2021

Stockholm: The Swedish body housing the committee that awards the Nobel Prize in medicine on Tuesday said it will rename some buildings and a street named after racialist or pro-Nazi scientists.

The rector of the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Stockholm said a room, a building and a street bearing the names of Anders Retzius (1796-1860) and his son Gustaf (1842-1919) would be renamed.

"They espoused values that are not in concordance with the core values that we as a university should adhere to," Ole Petter Ottersen said in an online video. The elder Retzius is best known for the "cephalic index", a measure of skull proportions that is a source of racist hierarchies.

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