News

December

• Five prominent researchers elected to the Academy

  2011-12-31 News: At the General Meeting on 9 November 2011 Leif Groop, Professor at Lund University, Magnus Berggren, professor at Linköping University, Danica Kragic Jensfelt, professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Kari Alitalo, professor at University of Helsinki, Finland and Fred H. Gage, professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA, were elected members of the Academy.

• Statement by the Academy: Sweden needs bold, creative and pioneering basic research

  2011-12-02 Press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has delivered a statement to the Ministry of Education and Research ahead of the forthcoming 2012 Research and Innovation Policy Bill. It emphasises that Sweden needs bold, creative and pioneering basic research in order to safeguard the country's future prosperity and tackle the huge global challenges humanity is facing. It is the Academy's view that the...

November

• Press activities during the Nobel week 2011 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

  2011-11-24 Press release: NB! Further information and registration to all press activities is available at http://kva.se/en/pressroom Last day for registration to all press activities: SUNDAY 4 DECEMBER 2011. The press activities are only for the media. Please bring your press ID (or similar) and a photo ID.

• How does the German phase-out decision affect Europe and Sweden?

  2011-11-02 News: The Academy's Energy Committee has produced a report on effects of Germany's decision to phase-out their nuclear power stations before 2022. If the whole of the EU were to follow the German example, the EU’s carbon dioxide emissions would rise by 20% compared with the current level, directly contrary to the EU objective of reducing emissions by 20% by 2020.

October

• Pekka Pyykkö elected foreign member of the Academy’s Class for chemistry

  2011-10-27 News: At the General Meeting on 5 October Pekka Pykkö, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland, was elected foreign member of the Academy's Class for chemistry.

• Largest initiative ever for Sweden’s future research leaders

  2011-10-13 Press release: The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided to set up a unique career programme for young researchers. Wallenberg Academy Fellows, as it will be called, represents assured long-term resources for the country’s most promising young researchers in all disciplines. The programme will be the Foundation’s largest initiative ever. The plan is to provide funding of SEK 1.2 billion, over five...

• The Prize in Economic Sciences 2011

  2011-10-10 Press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2011 to Thomas J. Sargent , New York University, New York, NY, USA, and Christopher A. Sims , Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA,

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011

  2011-10-05 Press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Dan Shechtman , Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “for the discovery of quasicrystals”.

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

  2011-10-04 Press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 with one half to Saul Perlmutter The Supernova Cosmology Project Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, and the other half to Brian P. Schmidt The High-z Supernova Search Team Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia, and Adam G. Riess The...

September

• This year's Nobel Prizes and Prize in Economic Sciences will soon be announced

  2011-09-26 News: Soon this year's Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The moment the Permanent Secretary begins his announcement at the webcasted press conference, press releases, illustrated popular scientific presentations, Scientific background and more will be published here and at http://nobelprize.org.

• Stefan Svallfors elected to the Academy's Class for social sciences

  2011-09-23 News: At the General Meeting on 14 september Stefan Svallfors, Professor of Sociology at Umeå universitetet, was eleceted to the Academy's Class for social sciences.

• The Aminoff Prize 2012

  2011-09-15 Press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded The Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography 2012 to Marat Yusupov and Gulnara Yusupova , Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France, and Harry F. Noller , University of California Santa Cruz, USA,

August

• PRESS CONFERENCES for The Nobel Prize in Physics, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry and The Prize in Economic Sciences 2011

  2011-08-24 Press release: Welcome to press conferences with the announcements of this year’s Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, and of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

• Available position: Managing Editor, Physica Scripta

  2011-08-22 News: Due to retirement of the current Managing Editor, we are looking for a new Managing Editor of Physica Scripta, an international scientific, physical journal published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the physical societies and academies of science in the Nordic countries.

May

• New Academy for young researchers in Sweden

  2011-05-27 Press release: A new academy of sciences is founded today: the Young Academy of Sweden. – Finally, young researchers will have their own forum. We will work interdisciplinary with both scientific and structural issues. We promise to take an active part in public debate, says Professor Helene Andersson Svahn, the first chairman of the Young Academy of Sweden.

• Nobel Laureates hand over recommendations to UN high level panel on global sustainability

  2011-05-19 News: Yesterday 18 Laureates of the Nobel Prize and the Prize in Economic Sciences signed the Stockholm Memorandum: Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability, a document that recommends a suite of urgent and far-reaching actions for decision makers and societies to become active stewards of the planet for future generations.

April

• A founding moment: New Swedish Academy of Sciences for outstanding young researchers

  2011-04-27 Press release: At the initiative of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, RSAS, the Young Academy of Sweden will be founded on 27 May 2011. – By gathering young researchers of the highest academic excellence and giving them their own dedicated platform, we wish to create a dynamic climate for research, says Staffan Normark, Permanent secretary at the RSAS.

• Two prominent geoscientists elected to the Academy

  2011-04-25 News: At the General Meeting on 13 april Marie-José Gaillard-Lemdahl, Professor of botany-vegetation history/palaeoecology at Linnaeus University Kalmar, and Martin Whitehouse, adjunct Professor at Stockholm University and Senior research fellow at Swedish Museum of Natural History, were eleceted foreign members of the Academy's Class for geosciences.

March

• Michael Aschbacher is being awarded The Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics

  2011-03-21 Press release: The Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics 2011 is being awarded to Michael Aschbacher

• Hilary Putnam is being awarded The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy 2011

  2011-03-14 Press release: The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy 2011 is being awarded to Hilary Putnam

February

• Four prominent researchers elected to the Academy

  2011-02-14 News: At the General Meeting on 9 February Anders Tunlid, Professor of Microbial Ecology at Lund University, Olle Kämpe, Professor of Molecular Medicine at Uppsala University, Jonas Frisén, Professor of Stem Cell Research at Karolinska Institutet and Mee-mann Chang (Miman Zhang), Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, were elected members of the Academy.

• Researchers in physics and phonetics elected to the Academy

  2011-02-07 News: At the General Meeting on 19 January Eva Olsson, Professor of Experimental Physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Francisco Lacerda, Professor of Phonetics at Stockholm University, David Haviland, Professor of Nanostructure Physics at KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology and Jon Magne Leinaas, Professor of Theoretical Physics at University of Oslo were elected to the Academy.

January

• Crafoord Prize in Biosciences 2011

  2011-01-20 Press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences for 2011 to Ilkka Hanski , University of Helsinki, Finland,

• Twelve new members elected to the Academy

  2011-01-10 News: At the General Meeting on 15 December a total of twelve prominent researchers were elected to the classes for mathematics, chemistry, geosciences, biosciences and engineering sciences.