 Lundgren stated that " My dad always told me that if I wanted to make something special with my life , I had to go to America . " After graduating from high school with straight As , he spent some time in the United States in the 1970s on various academic scholarships , studying chemistry at Washington State University and Clemson University . He received a degree in Chemistry from Washington State University , following in the footsteps of his father and older brother , then served his mandatory one year in the Swedish Marine Corps at the Amphibious Ranger School . In the late 1970s , he enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and graduated with a degree in chemical engineering . 
