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December
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2010-12-02
News:
On 1 December 2010 the Abisko Scientific Research Station was transferred to the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. The station has been managed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1935, but the first field station was established as early as 1903.
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2010-11-30
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NB! Further information and registration to all press activities is available at http://kva.se/pressroom Last day for registration to all press activities: FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER 2010 The press activities are only for the media. Please bring your press ID, or similar.
October
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2010-10-11
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2010 to Peter A. Diamond , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Dale T. Mortensen , Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and Aarhus University, Denmark, and Christopher A. Pissarides , London School of Economics and Political...
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2010-10-06
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to Richard F. Heck , University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, Ei-ichi Negishi , Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA and Akira Suzuki , Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan,
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2010-10-05
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov , both at University of Manchester, UK,
September
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2010-09-16
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded The Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography 2011 to Professor Lia Addadi and Professor Stephen Weiner , both at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel,
June
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2010-06-15
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In cooperation with several Swedish funders of scientific research, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is establishing a new secretariat – the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences (SSEESS) – in order to facilitate Swedish researchers’ participation and leadership in international research programmes about sustainable development.
May
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2010-05-26
News:
At the General Meeting on 19 May Professor Simon K. Donaldson at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK, and Paola Eerola, Professor of experimental elementary particle physics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, were elected as foreign members of the Academy.
April
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2010-04-28
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At the General Meeting on 14 April Claes-Göran Wahlström, Professor of Physics and head of Atom Physics division at Department of Physics, Lund University, and architect Johan Celsing were elected members of the Academy.
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2010-04-26
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Welcome to meet “the father of oceanography”, Walter Munk, who comes to Sweden to receive the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences, “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding of ocean circulation, tides and waves, and their role in the Earth’s dynamics” . The Crafoord Days 2010 begin in Stockholm and end in Lund.
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2010-04-15
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On 14 April the Academy decided to appoint Professor Staffan Normark as new Permanent Secretary from 1 July 2010. He will succeed Professor Gunnar Öquist who has held the position since 2003.
January
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2010-01-27
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The Royal Swedish Academy’s Energy Committee expects a massive expansion of wind power in the decades ahead. Globally, it looks set to rise from 260 TWh of electricity in 2008 to an estimated 5,000 TWh in 2050. This represents an annual average increase of 8%.
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2010-01-21
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences 2010 to Walter Munk , Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA,
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