"to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society"
News
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2015-10-12 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 2015 to
Angus Deaton, Princeton University, NJ, USA
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2015-10-07 Press release:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to
Tomas Lindahl, Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK,
Paul Modrich, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA and
Aziz Sancar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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2016-10-06 Press release:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to
Takaaki Kajita, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan and
Arthur B. McDonald, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
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2015-10-01 News:
Fake emails concerning the Nobel Prize in Physics with false sender addresses are currently in circulation. The Academy wishes to clarify that no statements regarding this year’s Nobel Prizes have been made by the Nobel Committee members.
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Science in society
Academy statement on homeopathic products
In May 2015, the Academy made a critical statement concerning a report from the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) on homeopathic products.
Science in society
Events
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2015-10-22 Scientific symposia:
Astronomdagarna is a scientific meeting held every two years, bringing together astronomers from different Swedish institutes and others interested in astronomy, in an atmosphere designed to promote scientific exchange
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2015-10-29 Scientific symposia:
This symposium will give insights in mechanisms underlying health anxiety and how these mechanisms can be effectively targeted with psychological treatment including recently developed Internet-based treatments.
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2015-11-05 Popular science lectures:
Doreen Stabinsky, Zennström Visiting professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, will give a lecture on education for sustainable development. The lecture will be followed by questions and the award of the Swedish National Committee for Geography’s prize for geography teachers (in Swedish).
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2015-11-11 Meetings:
Meeting for members of the Academy. Please note that only Academy members may attend.
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Education
The Academy has long considered it important to foster the teaching of science and mathematics in Swedish schools. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the Academy has initiated and become involved in many activities seeking to improve school teaching and attract people to learn natural science.
Education
Grants/Funding
Scholarships open for application
Grants/Funding
Prizes
Each year, the Academy awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, but also many other prizes in recognition of distinguished achievements.
Prizes
Nobel 2015
This year’s Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences is about metamorphosis in the particle world, the cells' toolbox for DNA repair, and consumption, great and small.
Nobel Prizes
Prize in Economic Sciences
The members
At the General Meeting on 7 October, Eva Lindroth, was elected Swedish member of the Academy's Class for Physics. John Wettlaufer is A.M. Bateman Professor of Geophysics, Mathematics and Physics at Yale University, CT, USA, a part time Professor at Nordita in Stockholm, and guest Professor in Mathematics at University of Oxford, Great Britain was elected foreign member of the Academy's Class for Physics.
Members
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