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Stockholm University researchers in Nobel Committees

Several professors at Stockholm University are members of the award committes appointing the Nobel Laureates.

The work of appointing the Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics and the economics laureate is led by three award committees at the Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA). Several of Stockholm University's researchers are part of the committees that appoint the laureates for the Nobel Prize and the Prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel. In the committee for the Economics prize, both the chairman and the secretary are professors at Stockholm University, and the committee secretary for the prize in chemistry is a professor at Stockholm University. Additional researchers at the university are part of the three committees at KVA or are members of the Swedish Academy, which appoints the literature laureates.

About the Nobel Prize

 

The Nobel Committee for Chemistry

Peter Brzezinski, Professor in Biochemistry at Stockholm University, is secretary of the Chemistry Committee. Xiaodong Zou, Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry, is member of the committee.

 

The Nobel Committee for Physics

Mats Larsson, Professor of Molecular Physics at Department of physics, and John Wettlaufer, Professor in Geophysics, Mathematics and Physics at Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), are members of the Nobel Committee for Physics.

 

The Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy

Anders Olsson, Professor Emeritus of Literature at Stockholm University is chairman of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee for Literature. Tomas Riad, Professor of Scandinavian Languages, and Åsa Wikforss, Professor of Theoretical Philosphy, are two of the eighteen voting members of the Swedish Academy.

 

The Economic Sciences Prize Committee

Professors Jakob Svensson and Per Krusell are chairman and secretary respectively of the committee for the Prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel. Professor John Hassler and associate professor Timo Boppart are also members of the committe. All four are active at the Institute for International Economics (IIES), Stockholm University.

 

 

Nobel Laureates from Stockholm University

Four scientists from Stockholm University have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, whilst another has received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Economy Prize).

Nobel Laureates

 

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