Chem. Senses 28: 83-84,
2003
© Oxford University Press 2003
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David Ottoson (19182001)
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A master in our field of sensory physiology has passed away after a short, but painful illness. He left his wife Inger and daughter Gabrielle Ahlberg.
David Ottoson was born and spent his childhood in Chalgan, China, where his
parents were missionaries. David first studied odontology, then medicine, and
started his scientific career in 1952 as a research assistant at the
Department of Physiology at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. His thesis
`Analysis of the electrical