Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
| Motto |
Att främja vetenskaperna och stärka deras inflytande i samhället (To promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society) |
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| Formation | 2 June 1739 |
| Headquarters | , Sweden |
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Membership
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450 Members 175 Foreign members |
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President
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Christina Moberg |
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Secretary General
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Göran K. Hansson |
| Website | www.kva.se/en |
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. It is an independent, non-governmental scientific organisation which takes special responsibility for the natural sciences and mathematics, but endeavours to promote the exchange of ideas between various disciplines.
Every year the Academy awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the Crafoord Prize and a number of other prizes.
The Academy has elected about 1.700 Swedish and 1.200 foreign members since it was founded in 1739. Today the Academy has about 450 Swedish and 175 foreign members which are divided into ten "classes", representing ten various scientific disciplines:
The following persons have served as permanent secretaries of the Academy:
The transactions of the Academy (Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar) were published as its main series between 1739 and 1974. In parallel, other major series have appeared and gone:
The Academy started to publish annual reports in physics and chemistry (1826), technology (1827), botany (1831), and zoology (1832). These lasted into the 1860s, when they were replaced by the single Bihang series (meaning: supplement to the transactions). Starting in 1887, this series was once again split into four sections (afdelning), which in 1903 became independent scientific journals of their own, titled "Arkiv för..." (archive for...), among them
Further restructuring of their topics occurred in 1949 and 1974.
The Academy was founded on 2 June 1739 by naturalist Carl Linnaeus, mercantilist Jonas Alströmer, mechanical engineer Mårten Triewald, civil servants Sten Carl Bielke and Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm, and statesman/author Anders Johan von Höpken.
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