query: place_of_birth martin h:son holmdahl
supports: Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low population density of , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country. Approximately 85% of the population lives in urban areas. Uppsala County ("Uppsala län") is a county or "län" on the eastern coast of Sweden. It borders the counties of Dalarna, Stockholm, Södermanland, Västmanland, Gävleborg, and the Baltic Sea. The Nordic countries or Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic, where they are most commonly known as Norden (lit., "The North"). They consist of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Åland Islands). Svante Martin Henriksson Holmdahl ( 10 June 1923 -- 11 March 2015 ) was a Swedish professor of anesthesiology , who was rector magnificus of Uppsala university between 1978 and 1989 . Holmdahl began his medical studies in Uppsala in 1942 . In 1953 he became responsible for the anesthesiology department at the Academic Hospital in Uppsala . In 1956 his doctoral dissertation Pulmonary Uptake of Oxygen , Acid - base Metabolism , and Circulation During Prolonged Apnoea was published . He became head of the anesthesiology department at Uppsala university in 1965 , and in 1970 he was appointed prorektor . When Torgny T : son Segerstedt retired as vice chancellor of the university in 1978 , Holmdahl was appointed as his successor , and he held the post until his retirement in 1989 . In 2003 , Uppsala University instituted The Martin H : son Holmdahl Scholarship for the promotion of human rights and liberty , in honour of Holmdahl 's 80th birthday . He died at the age of 91 in Uppsala in 2015 . Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, the city has a population of approximately 550,000 in the urban area and 990,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Uppsala (older spelling "Upsala") is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. It had 140,454 inhabitants in 2010. Uppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries, founded in 1477. It ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings. The university uses "Gratiae veritas naturae" as its motto and embraces natural sciences. Stockholm (or ) is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 932,917 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area. The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by a Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the capital of Stockholm County. Malmö  is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania. Malmö is the third largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the 6th biggest city in the Nordic countries, with a population of above 300,000. The Malmö Metropolitan Region is home to 700,000 people, and the Øresund Region, which includes Malmö, is home to 3.9 million people.
candidates: best denmark gothenburg iceland malmö most norden norway of stockholm sweden södermanland union uppsala upsala åland islands
answer: gothenburg