place_of_birth martin h:son holmdahl
___MASK19___ University is a research university in ___MASK19___ , Sweden , and is the oldest university in Sweden and all ___MASK88___ the Nordic countries , founded in 1477 . It ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings . The university uses " Gratiae veritas naturae " as its motto and embraces natural sciences . ___MASK100___ is the capital and largest city ___MASK88___ the Swedish county ___MASK88___ Scania . ___MASK100___ is the third largest city in Sweden , after ___MASK72___ and ___MASK70___ , and the 6th biggest city in the Nordic countries , with a population ___MASK88___ above 300 , 000 . The ___MASK100___ Metropolitan Region is home to 700 , 000 people , and the Øresund Region , which includes ___MASK100___ , is home to 3 . 9 million people . ___MASK52___ , officially the Kingdom ___MASK88___ ___MASK52___ ( Swedish : ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe . It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east , and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge - tunnel across the Öresund . At , ___MASK52___ is the third - largest country in the European Union by area , with a total population ___MASK88___ 10 . 0 million . ___MASK52___ consequently has a low population density ___MASK88___ , with the highest concentration in the southern half ___MASK88___ the country . Approximately 85 % ___MASK88___ the population lives in urban areas . Svante Martin Henriksson Holmdahl ( 10 June 1923 -- 11 March 2015 ) was a Swedish professor ___MASK88___ anesthesiology , who was rector magnificus ___MASK88___ Uppsala university between 1978 and 1989 . Holmdahl began his medical studies in Uppsala in 1942 . In 1953 he became responsible for the anesthesiology department at the Academic Hospital in Uppsala . In 1956 his doctoral dissertation Pulmonary Uptake ___MASK88___ Oxygen , Acid - base Metabolism , and Circulation During Prolonged Apnoea was published . He became head ___MASK88___ the anesthesiology department at Uppsala university in 1965 , and in 1970 he was appointed prorektor . When Torgny T : son Segerstedt retired as vice chancellor ___MASK88___ the university in 1978 , Holmdahl was appointed as his successor , and he held the post until his retirement in 1989 . In 2003 , Uppsala University instituted The Martin H : son Holmdahl Scholarship for the promotion ___MASK88___ human rights and liberty , in honour ___MASK88___ Holmdahl ' s 80th birthday . He died at the age ___MASK88___ 91 in Uppsala in 2015 . ___MASK19___ ( older spelling " Upsala ") is the capital ___MASK88___ ___MASK19___ County and the fourth largest city ___MASK88___ Sweden , after ___MASK72___ , ___MASK70___ and Malmö . It had 140 , 454 inhabitants in 2010 . ___MASK70___ is the second - largest city in Sweden and the fifth - largest in the Nordic countries . Situated by the Kattegat , on the west coast of Sweden , the city has a population of approximately 550 , 000 in the urban area and 990 , 000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area . ___MASK19___ County (" ___MASK19___ län ") is a county or " län " on the eastern coast ___MASK88___ Sweden . It borders the counties ___MASK88___ Dalarna , ___MASK72___ , Södermanland , Västmanland , Gävleborg , and the Baltic Sea . The Nordic countries or Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic , where they are ___MASK3___ commonly known as Norden ( lit ., " The North "). They consist ___MASK88___ Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway , and Sweden , including their associated territories ( Greenland , the Faroe Islands , and the ___MASK95___ ). ___MASK72___ ( or ) is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries ; 932 , 917 people live in the municipality , approximately 1 . 5 million in the urban area , and 2 . 3 million in the metropolitan area . The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren , by the ___MASK72___ archipelago and the Baltic Sea . The area has been settled since the Stone Age , in the 6th millennium BC , and was founded as a city in 1252 by a Swedish statesman Birger Jarl . It is also the capital of ___MASK72___ County .