The KTH Royal Institute of Technology,abbreviated KTH,is a public research university in Stockholm,Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest technical university. Currently,KTH consists of five schools with four campuses in and around Stockholm.
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.
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).
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.
Karl Sune Detlof Bergström was a Swedish biochemist. In 1975,he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden,and was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University,together with Bengt I. Samuelsson. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982,for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.
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.
Fredrik Ljungström was a Swedish engineer,technical designer,and industrialist.
General Sverker John Olof Göranson is a retired Swedish Army officer. Sverkerson was commissioned as an officer in 1977. During the 1990s,Göranson embarked on an international career. He completed the Swedish National Defence College's Command Course and attended several courses in international humanitarian law before relocating to the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth,Kansas. In 1994,he also completed the United Nations Staff Officers Course. Notably,Göranson served as the Chief of Staff in Nordbat 2/BA 05 within the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia from 1995 to 1996 and later as the Deputy Battalion Commander in Swebat within the Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996. Upon his return to Sweden,Göranson assumed the position of Deputy Brigade Commander at the Scanian Brigade and later became the Brigade Commander of the Life Guards Brigade before taking up the role of Military Attachéand Assistant Defence Attachéin Washington,D.C. He assumed the position of Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces in 2009.
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.
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."
