The Karolinska Institute or Karolinska institutet is a medical university in Stockholm, Sweden. It is the largest single institution of higher education in medicine in the world. A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital. It is one of Sweden's largest centres for training and research, accounting for 30 per cent of the medical training and 40 per cent of the medical academic research that is conducted nationwide.
Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848; professor at KI), invented modern chemical notation and is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; discoverer of the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium.
Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the KarolinskaInstitute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is a medical university in Solna, just outside Stockholm, founded in 1810.
The Karolinska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital.
The KarolinskaInstitute was founded in the period between 1810 and 1811 as a training center for army surgeons.
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