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

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

External links

• Official website (in Swedish)
• About the Polhem Prize (in Swedish)
• All Winners of the Polhem Prize (in Swedish)