Norra Real

Norra Real

Norra Real, "Northern Real" (gymnasium), is an upper-secondary school located on Roslagsgatan 1 in Stockholm, Sweden.^[1] The school was officially founded in 1890, but was already mentioned early into the 14th century and is the oldest upper-secondary school in Stockholm. Until 1961 it was an all-boys school. It formerly was the site of Stockholm's public international school, which moved to Kungsholmens Gymnasium, another Stockholm upper-secondary school located on the island of Kungsholmen, in 1987. Norra Real is the only secondary school in the World that has produced six Nobel prize winners.^{[citation needed]}

Notable alumni

• Manne Siegbahn, physicist. Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. Father of Nobel Prize winner Kai Siegbahn.
• Lars Gyllensten, author and physician. Member of the Swedish Academy.
• Helge von Koch, mathematician. Gave his name to Koch snowflake.
• Gunnar Myrdal, economist, politician and Nobel Prize winner. Married to Nobel Peace Prize winner, Alva Myrdal.
• Nils Strindberg, photographer. Member of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.
• Jonas Gardell, novelist and playwright.
• Horace Engdahl, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
• Leif GW Persson, novelist.
• Göran Liljestrand, pharmacologist, known for the discovery of the Euler-Liljestrand mechanism.
• Claes Elfsberg, television journalist.

References

1. ^ "Norra Real address". Hitta.se. http://www.hitta.se/SearchMixed.aspx?vad=norra+real. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 

External links

• Official homepage

Coordinates: 59°20′38″N 18°03′41″E / 59.34389°N 18.06139°E / 59.34389; 18.06139