Polhem Prize

The Polhem Prize (Polhemspriset) is a Swedish award for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem. The innovation must be available and shown competitive on the open market. The prize is awarded by Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (Sveriges Ingenjörer) (formerly Civilingenjörsförbundet and Svenska Teknologföreningen) The prize is named after Swedish scientist, inventor and industrialist Christopher Polhem (1661–1751).[1] [2]

Laureates

YearLaureateRationale
1878Werner Cronquist
1879Otto Fahnehjelm
1881Elis Bedoire
1882Carl Ångström
1895Ernst Danielson
Johan Gustaf Richert
1900Martin Ekenberg
Johan August Brinell
1904Carl Lundgren
Sigurd Nauckhoff
1911Richard Ekwall
1921Franz Ragnar Berwald and Bo Hellström
1925Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters
1930Erik Öman and Elis Göth
Mauritz Vos and Håkan Sterky
1936Walter Kjellman
Lennart Forsén
1940Waloddi Weibulla statistical theory of the strength of metals
1945Conny Palm
Olof Rydbeckon the propagation of radio waves
1950Hannes Alfvén
K H Gustavson
1955Gunnar Pleijel
Georg Drouggea method for the continuous variation of the Mach number in a supersonic tunnel
1960Ragnar Lundholm
K Joel Lindbergwool fabrics as garment construction materials
Nils Hastthe measurement of rock pressure in mines
1969Bertil Stålhane
1974Per-Anders Persson
Sigvard Strandh
1979Bengt Gunnar Magnusson
1980Georg Vogl
1981Sven Brohult
1982Torkel Wallmark
1983Ove Pettersson
1984Arne Berlie and Hadar Lidén
1985Kåre Hannerz
1986Sven Benktander and Sture Åsberg
1987Ove Fernö
1988Lennart Gustavsson and Leif Lindau
1989Olle Siwersson
1990Harry Frank
1991Karl Dunkers
1992Per Siversson
1993Claes Ericsson
1994Mikael Karlsson and Martin Gren
1995Håkan Lans
1997Hans Hellsten
1999Gunnar Asplund
2001Mats Leijon
2003Ove Öhman
2005Lars Ingvarsson
2007Karl Gustaf Derman
2009 Laila Ohlgren Nordic Mobile Telephone dialing procedure[3]
2011Georgios Psaros
2013 Petra Wadström Solvatten
2014Hans Björklund
2015 John Elvesjö and Mårten Skogö
2016Lennart Lindblad
2017 Daniel Stenberg cURL
2018Lars Stigsson and Valeri Naydenov
2019Peter Halldin, Hans von Holst and Svein Kleiven
2020Ludvig StrigeusμTorrent, Spotify
2021Rickard Öste and Angeliki Triantafyllou
2022Staffan Gestrelius

References

  1. "Om Polhemspriset". Polhemspriset. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  2. "Om Christopher Polhem". Polhemspriset. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  3. "Laila dials a winner". Ericsson History. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Centre for Business History.


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