Nils Ringertz, 69; Cell Geneticist Founded Nobel Internet Museum

Nils Ringertz, 69, the founder of the Nobel Internet Museum, www .nobel.se, and a former secretary of the committee that chooses the Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Stockholm of unstated causes.

A doctor specializing in cell genetics, Ringertz taught and helped establish the department of cell and molecular biology at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute.

He headed the department from 1988 to 1996, and for more than 30 years was an editor of the scientific journal Experimental Cell Research.

A member of the Nobel Assembly, Ringertz was secretary of the Nobel medicine committee from 1993 to 1999. He was a member of the board of directors of the Nobel Foundation, which administers all the Nobel Prizes.

Ringertz was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 1994, Ringertz started a project to put the history of the Nobel Prize on the Internet--an effort that became what the Nobel Foundation now calls its Nobel e-Museum.