The Polhem Prize (Polhemspriset) is a Swedish award for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem. The innovation must be available and shown competitive on the open market. The prize is awarded by Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (Sveriges Ingenjörer) (formerly Civilingenjörsförbundet and Svenska Teknologföreningen) The prize is named after Swedish scientist, inventor and industrialist Christopher Polhem (1661–1751).
Laureates Year Laureate Rationale 1878 Werner Cronquist 1879 Otto Fahnehjelm 1881 Elis Bedoire 1882 Carl Ångström 1895 Ernst Danielson Johan Gustaf Richert 1900 Martin Ekenberg Johan August Brinell 1904 Carl Lundgren Sigurd Nauckhoff 1911 Richard Ekwall 1921 Franz Ragnar Berwald and Bo Hellström 1925 Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters 1930 Erik Öman and Elis Göth Mauritz Vos and Håkan Sterky 1936 Walter Kjellman Lennart Forsén 1940 Waloddi Weibull A statistical theory of the strength of materials 1945 Conny Palm Olof Rydbeck The propagation of radio waves 1950 Hannes Alfvén K H Gustavson 1955 Gunnar Pleijel Georg Drougge The continuous variation of the Mach number in a supersonic tunnel 1960 Ragnar Lundholm K Joel Lindberg Wool fabrics as garment construction materials Nils Hast The measurement of rock pressure in mines 1969 Bertil Stålhane 1974 Per-Anders Persson Sigvard Strandh 1979 Bengt Gunnar Magnusson 1980 Georg Vogl 1981 Sven Brohult 1982 Torkel Wallmark 1983 Ove Pettersson 1984 Arne Berlie and Hadar Lidén 1985 Kåre Hannerz 1986 Sven Benktander and Sture Åsberg 1987 Ove Fernö 1988 Lennart Gustavsson and Leif Lindau 1989 Olle Siwersson 1990 Harry Frank 1991 Karl Dunkers 1992 Per Siversson 1993 Claes Ericsson 1994 Mikael Karlsson and Martin Gren 1995 Håkan Lans 1997 Hans Hellsten 1999 Gunnar Asplund 2001 Mats Leijon 2003 Ove Öhman 2005 Lars Ingvarsson 2007 Karl Gustaf Derman 2009Laila OhlgrenNordic Mobile Telephone dialing procedure 2011 Georgios Psaros 2013Petra WadströmSolvatten 2014 Hans Björklund 2015John Elvesjö and Mårten Skogö2016 Lennart Lindblad 2017Daniel StenbergcURL2018 Lars Stigsson and Valeri Naydenov 2019 Peter Halldin, Hans von Holst and Svein Kleiven 2020 Ludvig Strigeus μTorrent, Spotify2021 Rickard Öste and Angeliki Triantafyllou 2022 Staffan Gestrelius
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External links Official website (in Swedish) About the Polhem Prize (in Swedish) All Winners of the Polhem Prize (in Swedish)