Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist,but often referred to as a chemist,Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903,becoming the first Swedish Nobel laureate. In 1905,he became the director of the Nobel Institute,where he remained until his death.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is one of the royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739,it is an independent,non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for promoting natural sciences and mathematics and strengthening their influence in society,whilst endeavouring to promote the exchange of ideas between various disciplines.
The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933–1986). The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm,Sweden,in 1993 and,since 2005,are awarded every three years. It is sometimes considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Philosophy. Each recipient receives SEK 600,000.
Per Christian Jersild,better known as P. C. Jersild,is a Swedish author and physician. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University from 22 January 2000,and another one in engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (1999).
The Royal Order of the Polar Star,sometimes translated as the Royal Order of the North Star,is a Swedish order of chivalry created by King Frederick I on 23 February 1748,together with the Order of the Sword and the Order of the Seraphim. The Order of the Polar Star is intended as a reward for Swedish and foreign "civic merits,for devotion to duty,for science,literary,learned and useful works and for new and beneficial institutions".
David Enskog was a Swedish mathematical physicist. Enskog helped develop the kinetic theory of gases by extending the Maxwell–Boltzmann equations.
The Gregori Aminoff Prize is an international prize awarded since 1979 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the field of crystallography,rewarding "a documented,individual contribution in the field of crystallography,including areas concerned with the dynamics of the formation and dissolution of crystal structures. Some preference should be shown for work evincing elegance in the approach to the problem."
Carl Edvard Johansson was a Swedish inventor and scientist.
Karl Johan Åström is a Swedish control theorist,who has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering,computer control and adaptive control. In 1965,he described a general framework of Markov decision processes with incomplete information,what ultimately led to the notion of a Partially observable Markov decision process.
Fredrik Ljungström was a Swedish engineer,technical designer,and industrialist.
Caleb Althin (1866–1919) was a Swedish painter,illustrator,and art teacher.
Carl Svante Janson is a Swedish mathematician. A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1994,Janson has been the chaired professor of mathematics at Uppsala University since 1987.
Tommy Ohlsson is a Swedish physicist. He is a full professor in theoretical physics with specialization in elementary particle physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm,Sweden,situated at the AlbaNova University Center. His research field is theoretical particle physics,particularly neutrino physics and physics beyond the so-called Standard Model. He is an author of around hundred scientific publications and one textbook. He has also written a popular science text about the theory of special relativity at Nobelprize.org.
Arkady Ivanovich Melua is the general director and editor-in-chief of the scientific publishing house,Humanistica.
His Majesty's Marshal of the Realm who heads the Office of the Marshal of the Realm,is the highest official in the Royal Court of Sweden. The Marshal of the Realm is appointed by the monarch and is directly responsible for the organization and affairs of the court,and for maintaining liaison arrangements with the Riksdag and the Prime Minister/Government. Press releases and official statements from the Swedish royal family to the press and the public are typically released through the Marshal of the Realm.
Gustaf Adolf Vive Sparre af Söfdeborg was a Swedish nobleman,civil servant and politician. He was Sweden's Prime Minister for Justice,and later served as Chancellor of the Universities,and Marshal of the Realm,as well as several other offices.
Krister Holmberg,born 1946,is a Swedish chemist.
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is a Swedish biophysical chemist,born in 1968,who is a professor of chemical biology at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. In 2019 she was named by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry as a Distinguished Woman in Chemistry.
Lars Ivar Samuelson is a Swedish physicist and professor in nanotechnology and semiconductor electronics at Lund University.
Tore Lennart Frängsmyr was a Swedish historian. He was the first holder of the Hans Rausing professorship in the history of science at Uppsala university. According to J.L. Heilbron,Frängsmyr "dominated the history of science in Sweden from his chair at the University of Uppsala for a quarter century."
