Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. The Academy is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization which acts to promote the sciences, primarily the natural sciences and mathematics.

The Academy was founded in 1739 by naturalist Carl Linnaeus, mercantilist Jonas Alströmer, mechanical engineer Mårten Triewald, and politician Anders Johan von Höpken. It was modeled after the Royal Society of London and Academie Royale des Sciences in Paris, France.

Committees of the Academy act as selection boards for international prizes:

• Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
• Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (also known as the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics)
• Crafoord Prizes in astronomy and mathematics, geosciences, biosciences (with an emphasis on ecology), and polyarthritis (rheumatoid arthritis)
• Rolf Schock Prizes in logic and philosophy
• Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography

and national prizes:

• Göran Gustafsson Prizes for research in the natural sciences and medicine
• Söderberg Prize in economics or jurisprudence
• Tage Erlander Prize in physics, chemistry, technology, and biology
• Ingvar Lindqvist Prizes for teachers in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics.

References

See also

• Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture
• List of Swedish scientists

External links

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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