News

December

• Webcasted press conferences and interviews with the Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry, and the Laureate in Economic Sciences

  2008-12-03 Press release: Welcome to press conferences and interviews with the Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry, and the Laureate in Economic Sciences for 2008.

November

• Creative researchers in medicine and humanities elected to the Academy

  2008-11-14 News: On 12 November three prominent Swedish researchers were elected to the Academy: Ann-Mari Svennerholm, Professor in Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Perlman, Professor of Molecular Development Biology and Arne Jarrick, Professor of History.

October

• The Prize in Economic Sciences 2008

  2008-10-13 Press release: This year's Laureate is awarded the Prize for his research on international trade and economic geography. He has shown the effects of economies of scale on trade patterns and on the location of economic activity.

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

  2008-10-08 Press release: The remarkable brightly glowing green fluorescent protein, GFP, was first observed in the beautiful jellyfish, Aequorea victoria in 1962. Since then, this protein has become one of the most important tools used in contemporary bioscience.

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

  2008-10-07 Press release: Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are there so many different elementary particles? The Laureates in Physics have presented theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what happens inside the tiniest building blocks of matter.

September

• The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences 2008

  2008-09-22 Press release: Welcome to press conferences with the announcements of this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry, and for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

• New members of the Academy

  2008-09-11 News: At a meeting on 10 September three foreign and three Swedish members were elected members of the Academy. Their disciplines range from biochemistry, geosciences and astronomy to neuroscience and economics.

• Europeans awarded the Aminoff Prize 2009 for the development of revolutionary programme systems

  2008-09-11 Press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) has decided to award the Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography 2009 to George M. Sheldrick, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany and Gérard Bricogne, Global Phasing Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom

June

• The Volvo Environment prize for 2008 awarded to Academy member Crawford “Buzz” Holling

  2008-06-13 News: Craford Buzz Holling, Emeritus Eminent Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida, USA and member of the Academy’s class for biosciences has been awarded the Volvo Environment prize for 2008.

May

• The first Kavli Prize in Neuroscience awarded to Academy member Sten Grillner

  2008-05-28 News: Sten Grillner, Professor of physiology at the Karolinska Institutet and member of the Academy’s class for biosciences has been awarded the first Kavli Prize in Neuroscience “for discoveries on the Developmental and functional Logic of Neuronal Circuits"

• The Rolf Schock Prizes 2008

  2008-05-11 Press release: The philosopher Thomas Nagel, New York University, NY, USA, the mathematician Endre Szemerédi, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA, the artist Mona Hatoum and the musician Gidon Kremer have been awarded the Rolf Schock Prizes 2008.

April

• The Academy promotes research collaboration between Europe and Africa in basic science

  2008-04-29 News: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is taking part in an unprecedented series of research conferences to promote excellence and research collaboration between Europe and Africa in basic science.

March

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences supports free access to scientific results

  2008-03-12 News: The Academy has signed the Berlin Declaration on “Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”. The basic idea of Open Access Publishing is that the results of research financed by the public also should be freely available to the public.

February

• New members elected to the Academy

  2008-02-15 News: At the General meeting on 13 February Professor Sheila Kirkwood at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna, Sweden and Ph.D. Oded Schramm at Microsoft Research Redmond, USA were elected to the Academy.

January

• New research fellow positions in clinical oncology

  2008-01-23 News: By support from Acta Oncologica Foundation the Academy will appoint two research fellow positions in clinical oncology. The two part-time (50%) positions will extend over a period of five years, with the opportunity of working one to two years abroad.

• The Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy 2008

  2008-01-16 Press release: This year’s prize has been awarded to Maxim Kontsevich, Edward Witten and Rashid Alievich Sunyaev. It rewards mathematical discoveries that are significant for the fundamental laws of nature and research on black holes and the early Universe.

• Two physicists and one expert in political science elected to the Academy

  2008-01-16 News: At the General Meeting on 16 January Lene Vestergaard Hau, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, Gunnar Ingelman, Uppsala University, Sweden and Daniel Tarschys, Stockholm University, Sweden were elected to the Academy.

• The Crafoord Prize 2008: Mathematics and Astronomy

  2008-01-15 Press release: On Thursday morning 17 January, at 08.00 am (Swedish time, GMT +1 hour) the Crafoord Prize for 2008 will be announced. This year’s disciplines are Matematics and Astronomy. A press release and a popular science article will be sent out and scientific experts are available on telephone.