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  Swedish Royal Academies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Swedish Academy and Academy of Sciences are also responsible for the selection of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and the Prize in Economic Sciences.
Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (Kungl.
Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungl.
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 Biographical notes
One of the founders of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
One of the founders of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences.
Governor of the province of Västerbotten and of Uppsala in 1762.
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 Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities: Historical Outline
The explanation for this in a country otherwise famous for its homogeneity in many respects is to be found in the fact that several academies in Sweden were –; as they still are – independent bodies, not state authorities.
The attribute ‘Royal’ in the name of a learned society does not indicate that the body concerned is a public institution.
By tradition the statutes of Royal academies are subject to the King’s assent.
www.vitterhetsakad.se /historik/index-e.html   (728 words)

  
 Uppsala University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Uppsala University was given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century.
There is some evidence of academic studies in Uppsala during the 16th century; the Faculty of Theology is mentioned in a document from 1526, King Eric XIV appointed Laurentius Petri Gothus (later archbishop) rector of the university in 1566, and his successor and brother John III appointed a number of professors in the period 1569-1574.
The university became prominent in the sciences in the 18th century with names such as the physician and botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), the father of taxonomy, and his numerous important pupils, the physicist and astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744), inventor of the centigrade scale the predecessor of the Celsius scale, and the chemist Torbern Bergman (1735-1784).
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 Uppsala - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
An archiepiscopal see was established at present-day Uppsala in 1270, and the cathedral of Uppsala (13th cent.), the finest Gothic church in Sweden, became the usual coronation place of Swedish kings and is the burial place of Gustavus I, the botanist Linnaeus, and the scientist and religious teacher Swedenborg.
The Univ. of Uppsala, founded in 1477, is the oldest university of N Europe.
Other institutions in Uppsala include the Royal Society of Sciences, the Gustav Werners institute of high-energy physics and radiation biology, the Victoria Museum, and the Linnaean Museum.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-uppsala.html   (355 words)

  
 Ronald G.W. Norrish - Biography
He is a foreign member of the Polish and the Bulgarian Academies of Sciences, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and of the Royal Society of Sciences in Liege.
He has received the Meldola medal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (1926), the Davy medal of the Royal Society (1958), the Lewis medal of the Combustion Institute (1964), the Faraday medal of the Chemical Society (1965) and their Longstaff medal (1969).
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936 and is still endeavouring to continue to prosecute his scientific activities in Cambridge.
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 University Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
She is a member of the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala and the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala.
Karin Röding is University Director of Uppsala University as of October 1, 2006.
Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Finnish Society of Medicine, and Academia Europeae.
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 The ABB Group: ABB nanotechnology researcher wins Swedish prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
September 8 - An ABB corporate research scientist in Västerås, Sweden, was awarded the Thuréus prize on August 31 by The Royal Swedish Society of Sciences at Uppsala for his work in nanotechnology.
The Royal Swedish Society of Sciences at Uppsala (Societas regia scientiarum Upsaliensis) awards annual prizes to scientists, including four Thuréus prizes, the Linnaeus prize and seven Benzelius prizes.
The Royal Swedish Society of Sciences at Uppsala, found in 1710 - is the oldest royal academy in Sweden, and has over the centuries supported scientists in their research, including renowned Swedish botanist, Carl von Linnaeus – often called the Father of Taxonomy – on his journey to Lapland in 1732.
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 Carl Linnaeus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In 1728 Carl was enrolled at the faculty of medicine at the University of Uppsala.
In 1744 Linnaeus was appointed to secretary of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala.
In 1749 Linnaeus was appointed as principal at the University of Uppsala.
www.nrm.se /fbo/hist/linnaeus/linnaeus.html.en   (3358 words)

  
 Biography of Swedenborg - New Church in Australia, The -
The internal administration of the kingdom was further centralized through the development of a state bureaucracy, with the University of Uppsala providing the training for the corps of civil servants.
Noticed by the King early in his career while serving in the position of chaplain of his horse guards in Stockholm, in 1702 Swedberg was elevated to the post of Bishop of Skara, having served in Uppsala as a professor of theology and Dean and Rector of the Cathedral in the interim.
Uppsala, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Latina Upsaliensia, 1985.
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 Academies
Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer = Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen = Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences [In French, Dutch and English.
Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen (KZGW) = Royal Zeeland Society of Sciences [In Dutch.]
O'zbekiston Respublikasi Fanlar Akademiyasi = Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences = Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan = Академия Наук Республики Узбекистан = Akademiâ Nauk Respubliki Uzbekistan [In Uzbek, English, and Russian.]
www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /society/academies.html   (4509 words)

  
 Albrecht Kossel Summary
He was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala.
Albrecht Kossel was one of the earliest scientists to apply the exact methods of organic chemistry to problems in the chemistry of living tissue.
He was also a member of various societies, including the Royal Society of Sciences in Sweden.
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 Anders Celsius presented in History section
Anders Celsius, born in Uppsala, was one of a large number of scientists (all related) originating from Ovan?ker in the province of H?lsingland.
The expeditons confirmed Newton’s belief that the shape of the earth is an ellipsoid flattened at the poles.
Celsius published most of his work in the publications of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, which is the oldest Swedish scientific society founded in 1710, where Celsius was the secretary 1725-1744, and in the publications of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded in 1739.
www.newsfinder.org /site/more/anders_celsius   (942 words)

  
 1700-1739: Scholarly Societies Chronicle
In 1783, the Society ceased to exist separately and was absorbed by the Accademia dei Georgofili, the first agricultural academy in Europe, founded in 1753 (information taken from the historical section of the Società Botanica Italiana website).
Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland
On 1783, March 29 it ceased and was succeeded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).]
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 Uppsala universitet - Wikimedia Commons
Uppsala University is a university in Uppsala, Sweden, founded in 1477.
Originally the garden of Uppsala Castle, donated by King Gustav III of Sweden to the university, replaced the Linnaean garden and has later been expanded
The old botanical garden, originally founded by Olof Rudbeck in 1655, later re-planned by Carolus Linnaeus, now kept as a museum of 18th c.
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 Stockholms universitet: Universitetsledningen
Secretary General of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council [Naturvetenskapliga forskningsrådet; NFR] from 2000, member of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) 1992-1995, member of the Biology Committee (NFR-PuB) 1986-1995 and chairman of the Botany group 1991-1995, chairman of the Publications Committee (NFR-PuP) 1990-1992.
Fellow of the the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [Kungl.
Vetenskaps-societeten], and of the Linnean Society of London.
www.su.se /rektor   (902 words)

  
 Karin D. Caldwell
She lectures regularly on physical biochemistry and separation science, and is responsible for the Center's course on Biosensors.
After a few years of training in theoretical separation science under J. Calvin Giddings at the University of Utah in the US, she returned to Uppsala to prepare a doctoral thesis on enzyme immobilization based on hydrophobic interaction.
While in Utah she was also actively involved in promoting her Swedish heritage, as exemplified by her creation of the Swedish Heritage Society of Utah and the Utah chapter of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce.
www.ytbioteknik.uu.se /Staff/karin_caldwell/kdc.shtm   (672 words)

  
 Carl Linnaeus 1707-1778
The two Swedish universities, Uppsala and Lund, were then at their lowest ebb, with a few ageing and discouraged professors and little money for the maintenance of such studies as anatomy, botany and chemistry.
When Linnaeus arrived in Uppsala in 1728 he learned about another medical student interested in natural history, Pehr Arctaedius, who had begun his studies there four years earlier but was absent because of his father’s illness.
Linnaeus made first President of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, of which he was a founder member; appointed physician to the Admiralty; on 26 June 1739 married Sara Lisa; Tessin made leader of the Hats political party, Marshal of Swedish Diet.
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 Author Bio
I have Ph.D. in Physical Geography from Uppsala University, Sweden.
In 1991 I received the Linnæus Prize, given to explorers, from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.
I have been chairman of the Geographic Society of Uppsala, CEO of Central Office for Environmental Planning, Inc., partner in AB Hydroconsult, and developed instruments in my own company, Erlingsson Sub-Aquatic Surveys.
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 Bog References compiled by Karen Golinski
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B (Biological Sciences) 303: 605–654.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (Biology) 215: 299–325.
Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
www.geog.ubc.ca /courses/klink/g448/2000/rnp/bog_references.htm   (11548 words)

  
 International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science - Members - Per-Olov Löwdin (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Honorary president of: the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, Menton, France, (1986) (President 1979-85); the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, France (1986-); the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC, 1986-); the International Society of Quantum Biology; the Catalonian Quantum Chemistry Society; Doctor honoris causa (Gent 1975); Paris, (1975), Turku (1980).
Uppsala University established a yearly "Per-Olov Löwdin Lectureship" in 1983.
Foreign Member of the Advisory Boards of : Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan (1983-86); the Max Planck Society for Carbon Research, M?lheim d.a.
www.iaqms.org.cob-web.org:8888 /DeceasedMembers/IAQMS.member.Lowdin.html   (333 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Royal society of sciences of Uppsala, catalogue of publications 1716-1967 (Nova acta Regiae Societatis ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Amazon.com: Royal society of sciences of Uppsala, catalogue of publications 1716-1967 (Nova acta Regiae Societatis scientiarum Upsaliensis ; ser.
Royal society of sciences of Uppsala, catalogue of publications 1716-1967 (Nova acta Regiae Societatis scientiarum Upsaliensis ; ser.
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 Royal Swedish Society of Sciences: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Royal Swedish Society of Sciences: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
Vetenskapssocieteten i Uppsala, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden.
See also: Uppsala University, Royal Swedish Physiographic Society, Royal Swedish Society of Science and Letters
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 Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Detail of the building of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala.
Vetenskapssocieteten i Uppsala), is the oldest of the royal academies in Sweden and was founded 1710 in Uppsala on the initiative of the university librarian Erik Benzelius (jr) (later archbishop) under the name of Collegium curiosorum.
The name was changed to Societas Literaria Sueciae in 1719, when it received a royal charter in 1728 to Societas regia literaria et scientarium, and it was known from the mid 18th century as the Societas regia scientarum upsaliensis.
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 Psychology History
Here, he was part of the evolutionary biology faculty in the division of biological sciences.
In 1975, he was the recipient of the Science Medal from the Zoological Society of London.
He is a member of the British Genetical Society, the American Society of Naturalists, and is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (American Men and Women of Science, 1986).
www.muskingum.edu /~psych/psycweb/history/hamilton.htm   (1272 words)

  
 Theodor Kocher - Biography
Kocher was an honorary member of numerous academies and medical societies, e.g.
He was a Corresponding Member of the Surgical Society of Paris and of the Royal Society of Medical and Natural Sciences of Brussels; of the Belgian Academy of Medicine; the German Society of Neurologists and of the Hufeland Society of Berlin; Honorary M.D. of the Free University of Brussels.
In 1902 he was President of the German Society of Surgeons in Berlin and President of the First International Surgical Congress, 1905, in Brussels.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1909/kocher-bio.html   (1056 words)

  
 Carlson biography
He matriculated as a student at Uppsala University on 5 September 1907.
He was awarded his Master of Science degree on 30 May 1911, Licentiate on 14 December 1912, and defended his Ph.D. thesis On a class of Taylor series on 26 May 1914 (undertaken with the supervision of Anders Wiman), and became Doctor of Philosophy on 30 May 1914.
from 1927, the Society of Sciences in Uppsala from 1928, the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund from 1940, and one of the editors of Acta Mathematica from 1930.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Carlson.html   (997 words)

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