Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

For many years, the Swedish Academy interpreted " ideal " as " idealistic " () and used it as a reason not to give the prize to important but less Romantic authors, such as Henrik Ibsen and Leo Tolstoy.

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Kaijser is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2007 and also a member of the editorial board of two scientific journals: Journal of Urban Technology and Centaurus.

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In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

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In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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Category: Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

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During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

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" On 25 October, Pasternak sent a telegram to the Swedish Academy: " Infinitely grateful, touched, proud, surprised, overwhelmed.

" The Swedish Academy announced: " This refusal, of course, in no way alters the validity of the award.

Once I was aware of this, I informed the Swedish Academy of my voluntary renunciation of the Nobel Prize.

The highest honor awarded to chemists is the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded since 1901, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Seven faculty and alumni have received a Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, while 56 have been awarded the U. S. National Medal of Science, and 10 have received the National Medal of Technology.

In 1821, he was made a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren ( née Ericsson ) (), 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002 ) was a Swedish author and screenwriter.

Sten Sture the Younger (), Lord of Ekesiö ( 1493 – 3 February 1520 ), was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden, under the era of the Kalmar Union.

Laponia (), was a historical Swedish province, or landskap, in the north of Sweden which evolved from Lappmarken.

During the reign of Magnus III of Sweden between 1275 and 1290 the meetings of the council became a permanent institution having the offices of Steward or Justiciar (), Constable ( Swedish: Marsk ) and Chancellor ( Swedish: Kansler ), who until the 1530s was always an eccleasiastic.

Its current population is (), with a majority being Finnish speakers and a strong minority being Swedish speakers ().

The name ting is also found in the names of the first level instances of the Swedish and Finnish court system, which are called tingsrätt (), the Court of the Thing.

While Swedish troops were being deployed at the Russian border, near Villmanstrand () and Frederikshamn (), Swedish naval forces consisting of 10 ships of the line and 4 frigates under Admiral Tomas von Rajalin and 20 galley strong rowing fleet under Admiral Abraham Falkengren moved already on 20 May 1741 to the islands near the border.

AIK, (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben, ( literally " The General Sports Club " or " The Public Sports Club "), when needed internationally AIK Stockholm or AIK Solna, is a Swedish football club based at Råsunda stadium in Solna, a municipality in Stockholm County bordering Stockholm City Centre.

* the Class of Knights (), untitled descendants of Swedish Privy Councillors and since 1778 the 300 oldest families in the Class of Esquire as well as the " commander families ", who are of the descendants of commanders of Swedish royal orders ;

Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali (), in media previously known as the Cuban-Swede (), is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba between January 2002 and July 2004.

In the last year of his life his Tenth Symphony was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (), and he received several awards from Swedish music organisations.

The Uddeholm Swedish Rally (), formerly the Swedish Rally, is an automobile rally competition held in Värmland, Sweden in early February.

ESAB, Elektriska Svetsnings-Aktiebolaget (), is a Swedish industrial company.

The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication ( JMG ) at Gothenburg University has conducted yearly surveys regarding their political party sympathies among the members of the Swedish Union of Journalists (), the largest trade union organizing journalists in Sweden.

Svenska Cupen (), is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football and the main Swedish football cup.

The Swedish State Railways () or SJ, originally the Royal Railway Board (), is a former government agency responsible for operating the state railways in Sweden.

Karjalohja (), or Karislojo in Swedish is a municipality of Finland.

The Baltic governorates (), originally the Ostsee governorates (, ) is a collective name for the administrative units of the Russian Empire set up at the territories of Swedish Estonia, Swedish Livonia ( 1721 ) and, afterwards, of Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ( 1795 ).

He proposed the Celsius temperature scale in a paper to the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, the oldest Swedish scientific society, founded in 1710.

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

In 1851, the tycoon André Oscar Wallenberg founded the Company for Swedish Canal Steamboat Transit Traffic to carry goods from England to Russia via the canal.

After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, the Scanian lands came under the possession of the Swedish Crown, which quickly founded the Lund University in 1666 as a means of Swedification.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

The Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos and housed in a former power station which had been built in 1900, was one of the foremost centres for contemporary art in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.

The earliest documented origins of actual physical therapy as a professional group date back to Per Henrik Ling, “ Father of Swedish Gymnastics ,” who founded the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics ( RCIG ) in 1813 for massage, manipulation, and exercise.

The name Rus itself comes from Rus people, a group of Varangians ( possibly Swedish Vikings ) who founded the state of Rus ( Русь ).

Saab AB is a Swedish aerospace and defence company, founded in 1937.

" Svenska Aeroplan AB ( aktiebolag )" ( Swedish for " Swedish Aeroplane Company Limited ") ( SAAB ) was founded in 1937 in Trollhättan, with the merger of SAAB and Linköping based ASJA the headquarters moved to Linköping.

The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III.

The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 with the task of caring for Swedish literature and language, including the publication of a grand dictionary.

* Sweden-Sällskapet för Parapsykologisk Forskning ( the Swedish Society for Parapsychological Research ) was founded in 1948.

Beside Uppsala, new universities were founded in more distant parts of the Swedish Realm, the University of Dorpat ( present-day Tartu ) in Estonia ( 1632 ) and the University of Åbo in Finland ( 1640 ).

Vabis was a Swedish car and truck manufacturer, founded in 1891 as Vagnfabriks Aktiebolaget i Södertälje in municipality of Södertälje to produce railway cars.

Although Volvo was incorporated in 1915 as a subsidiary of AB SKF, a Swedish ball bearing manufacturer, the auto manufacturer considers itself officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV 4 series, affectionately known as " Jakob ", rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg.

* The Swedish city of Karlskrona is founded, as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.

* The Swedish city of Gothenburg is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

* February 16 – Gustav Adolf Secondary School is founded in Tallinn, Estonia by Swedish king Gustav II Adolf.

* The Swedish city of Stockholm is founded by Birger Jarl.