The Tage Erlander Prize (Tage Erlanders pris) is a prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science "for research in Natural Sciences and Technology" in four fields (Physics, Chemistry, Technology and Biology). The prize is awarded on a rolling schedule: every year the prize is awarded for research in one of these fields.
The prize commemorates Tage Erlander, who was the prime minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969.
Its 2024 recipient is mathematician Lilian Matthiesen. [1]
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Tage Fritjof Erlander was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969. Previously, he served as minister of education from 1945 to 1946, and was a member of the Riksdag from 1932 to 1973. During his premiership, Sweden developed into one of the world's most advanced welfare states, with the "Swedish Model" at the peak of its acclaim and notoriety. His uninterrupted tenure of 23 years as head of the government is the longest ever in Sweden and in any modern Western democracy.
Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.
Aina Erlander was a Swedish lecturer and the wife of Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander from 1930 until his death in June 1985.
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Achim Richter is a German nuclear physicist. He became a professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1974 and retired in September 2008. From 1 November 2008 to 31 October 2012 he was director of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy. Since 1 November 2012, he has been professor again at the Institute for Nuclear Physics of TU Darmstadt.
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