According to Wikipedia, Lars-Erik Tammelin was a Swedish chemist, defence researcher and civil servant. Tammelin served as Director-General of the Swedish National Defence Research Institute from 1984 to 1985. Career Tammelin was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Supreme Court Justice Erik Tammelin and his wife Elsa . Tammelin, who was an organic chemist, was recruited to the Swedish National Defence Research Institute in 1950 for research on nerve gas and nerve gas countermeasures. At this time, FOA had become aware that large quantities of nerve gas, primarily Tabun, had been stockpiled during World War II. The mechanism of action of the nerve gases were found to be linked to their chemical similarity to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and their ability to block the enzyme cholinesterase. Much of Tammelin's work was therefore focussed on choline esters. In 1958, he defended a Ph.D. thesis based on this work at Stockholm University College. The same year he became Docent in organic chemistry at Stockholm University College.
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