Nobel Committee for Physics
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The Nobel Committee for Physics is the Nobel Committee
responsible for proposing laureates for the Nobel Prize for Physics. The Nobel Committee for Physics is appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
. It usually consists of Swedish professors of physics who are members of the Academy, although the Academy in principle could appoint anyone to the Committee.
The Committee is a working body without decision power, and the final decision to award the Nobel Prize for Physics is taken by the entire Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, after having a first discussion in the Academy's Class for Physics.
Nobel Committee
A Nobel Committee is the working body responsible for the most of the work involved in selecting Nobel Prize laureates. There are five Nobel Committees, one for each Nobel Prize....
responsible for proposing laureates for the Nobel Prize for Physics. The Nobel Committee for Physics is appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. The Academy is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization which acts to promote the sciences, primarily the natural sciences and mathematics.The Academy was founded on 2...
. It usually consists of Swedish professors of physics who are members of the Academy, although the Academy in principle could appoint anyone to the Committee.
The Committee is a working body without decision power, and the final decision to award the Nobel Prize for Physics is taken by the entire Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, after having a first discussion in the Academy's Class for Physics.
Current members
The current members of the Committee are:- Ingemar LundströmIngemar LundströmIngemar Lundström, born May 9 1941 in Skellefteå, Sweden is a Swedish Professor of Applied Physics at Linköping University.Professor Lundström received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1967 at Chalmers University of Technology and his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 1970 from the same university...
, chairman - Lars Brink
- Börje Johansson
- Björn Jonson
- Anne L'Huillier
Secretary
The secretary takes part in the meeting, but cannot cast a vote unless the secretary is also a member of the Committee. Until 1973, the Nobel Committees for Physics and Chemistry had a common secretary.- Wilhelm Palmær, 1900–1926
- Arne Westgren, 1926–1943
- Arne Ölander, 1943–1965
- Arne Magnéli, 1966–1973
- Bengt Nagel, 1974–1988
- Anders Bárány, 1989–2003
- Lars BergströmLars Bergström (physicist)Lars Bergström, born 1952, is a Swedish professor of theoretical physics specializing in astroparticle physics at the Stockholm University, AlbaNova campus...
, 2004–
Former members
- Hugo Hildebrand HildebrandssonHugo Hildebrand HildebrandssonHugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson was a Swedish meteorologist and professor at Uppsala university between 1878 and 1907.-Biography:...
, 1900–1910 - Robert Thalén, 1900–1903
- Klas Bernhard Hasselberg, 1900–1922
- Knut ÅngströmKnut ÅngströmKnut Johan Ångström was a Swedish physicist. He was the son of physicist Anders Jonas Ångström and studied in Uppsala from 1877 to 1884, when he received his licentiat-degree, before going for a short time to the University of Strassburg to study with August Kundt...
, 1900–1909 - Svante ArrheniusSvante ArrheniusSvante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry...
, 1900–1927 - Gustaf Granqvist, 1904–1922
- Vilhelm Carlheim-Gyllensköld, 1910–1934
- Allvar GullstrandAllvar GullstrandAllvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist.Born at Landskrona, Sweden, Gullstrand was professor successively of eye therapy and of optics at the University of Uppsala. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye...
, 1911–1929 - Carl Wilhelm OseenCarl Wilhelm OseenCarl Wilhelm Oseen was a theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm....
, 1923–1944 - Manne SiegbahnManne SiegbahnKarl Manne Georg Siegbahn FRS was a Swedish physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy"....
, 1923–1961 (chairman ?–1957) - Henning Pleijel, 1928—1947
- Erik Hulthén, 1929–1962 (chairman 1958–1962)
- Axel E. Lindh, 1935–1960
- Ivar WallerIvar WallerIvar Waller was a Swedish professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He developed the theory of X-ray scattering by lattice vibrations of a crystal, building upon the prior work of Peter Debye...
, 1945–1972 - Gustaf Ising, 1947–1953
- Oskar KleinOskar KleinOskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist.Klein was born in Danderyd outside Stockholm, son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr. Gottlieb Klein from Homonna in Hungary and Antonie Levy...
, 1954–1965 - Bengt EdlénBengt EdlénBengt Edlén was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer who specialized in spectroscopy. He participated in solving the Corona Mystery: unidentified spectral lines in the sun's spectrum were speculatively believed to originate from a hitherto unidentified chemical element termed coronium...
, 1961–1976 - Erik Rudberg, 1963–1972 (chairman 1963–1972)
- Kai SiegbahnKai SiegbahnKai Manne Börje Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist.He was born in Lund, Sweden, and his father Manne Siegbahn also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1924. Siegbahn earned his doctorate at the University of Stockholm in 1944...
, 1963–1974 (chairman 1973–1974) - Lamek Hulthén, 1966–1979 (chairman 1975–1979)
- Per-Olov LöwdinPer-Olov LöwdinPer-Olov Löwdin was a Swedish physicist, professor at the University of Uppsala from 1960 to 1983, and in parallel at the University of Florida until 1993....
, 1972–1984 - A.M. Harun-ar-RashidA.M. Harun-ar-RashidA.M. Harun-ar-Rashid is a Bangladeshi physicist and Bose Professor of Physics at the University of Dhaka. He is nephew of Shamsuddin Abul Kalam-Education and Training:* B.Sc in Physics, University of Dhaka, 1953...
, 1972, 1986, 1993 - Stig Lundqvist, 1973–1985 (chairman 1980–1985)
- Sven Johansson, 1975–1986 (chairman 1986)
- Gösta Ekspong, 1975–1988 (chairman 1987–1988)
- Ingvar Lindgren, 1978–1991 (chairman 1989–1991)
- Carl NordlingCarl NordlingCarl Nordling, born February 6, 1931, is professor emeritus of physics in the Uppsala University. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and served as the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics.-Publications:...
, 1985–1997 (chairman 1992–1995) - Bengt Nagel, 1986–1997
- Erik Karlsson, 1987–1998 (chairman 1997–1998)
- Cecilia Jarlskog, 1989–2000 (chairman 1999–2000)
- Tord Claeson, 1992–2000
- Mats Jonson, 1997–2005
- Sune Svanberg, 1998–2006
- Per Carlson, 1999–2007
- Lennart Stenflo, 2001–2006
- Joseph NordgrenJoseph NordgrenErnst Joseph Nordgren, born November 16, 1947 in Örebro, is a Swedish physicist.Nordgren graduated as a B.Sc. from Uppsala University in 1971 och got his Ph.D. in physics in 1977. In 1979 he was made docent and since 1988, he is a professor of soft X-ray physics at Uppsala...
, 2001-2009 (chairman 2008–2009)