Axel Westman
Axel Westman was a Swedish physician and one of the foremost specialists in obstetrics and gynaecology of the twentieth century.
In 1927, he was appointed lectureship in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He went on to hold lectureship posts at Lund University and Uppsala University.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951.