Karl Myrbäck

{{Short description|Swedish chemist (1900–1986)}}

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|field = Chemistry, biochemistry

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Karl David Reinhold Myrbäck, (7 September 1900 – 1 July 1986),Sveriges dödbok 1947–2003, (CD-ROM version 3.0), Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2005 was a Swedish chemist.

Myrbäck graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 1927 from Stockholms högskola with a thesis on enzyme chemistry.{{cite book

|last=Myrbäck

|first=Karl

|title=Über Verbindungen einiger Enzyme mit inaktivierenden Stoffen.

|year=1926

|publisher=Gruyter

|location=Berlin

|language=German}} He became Docent of biochemistry in 1926, and LaboratorLaborator: Academic rank immediately below Professor. See: :sv:Laborator (in Swedish) at the Department of Biochemistry at Stockholms högskola in 1928. He was appointed professor of fermentation chemistry at Stockholms högskola in 1932, and of organic chemistry and biochemistry in 1947. Between 1963 and 1967, he was professor of biochemistry at Stockholm University. He was elected to both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1943, and acted subsequently as Deputy Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Myrbäck became editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Acta Chemica Scandinavica in 1947.