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This building houses Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics. Nordita was created in 1957 on the initiative of Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics in 1922, and Torsten Gustafson.

Previously, this building belonged to what was then called the Stockholm Epidemic Hospital. On March 28, 1890, the City Council decided to build this hospital high up on Albanokullen. It is an isolated place and therefore suited the purpose. The building was designed by the architect Per Emanuel Werming.

For a long time, the hospital received people who fell ill with infectious, epidemic diseases such as smallpox, typhoid and cholera, and from the 1980s it also treated the first AIDS patients in the country.

In 1966, Stockholm's epidemic hospital became Roslagstull's hospital, which was closed down in 1992.