What is the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
Q: What is the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademin ("KVA"), is an independent, scientific, non-governmental organization that supports the sciences, mainly the natural sciences and mathematics.
Q: Who founded the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded on 2 June 1739 by naturalist Carl Linnaeus, economist Jonas Alströmer, mechanical engineer Mårten Triewald, civil servants Sten Carl Bielke and Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm, and politician Anders Johan von Höpken.
Q: What was the purpose of founding the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A: The purpose of founding the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was to find useful knowledge and write about it in Swedish. It was also meant to be different from the Royal Society in Uppsala which had been started in 1719 and published in Latin.
Q: Where is the academy located?
A: The academy is located near Stockholm's main business centre as Uppsala did not have a university at this time.
Q: What are some international prizes given out by groups from the academy?
A: Groups from the academy give out international prizes such as Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry; Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (also known as Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics); Crafoord Prizes for astronomy and mathematics; geosciences; biosciences (with an emphasis on ecology); polyarthritis (rheumatoid arthritis); Rolf Schock Prizes for logic and philosophy; Gregori Aminoff Prize for crystallography; Oskar Klein medal.
Q: What are some national prizes given out by groups from the academy?
A: Groups from the academy give out national prizes such as Göran Gustafsson Prizes for research in natural sciences and medicine; Söderberg Prize for economics or jurisprudence; Tage Erlander Prize for physics, chemistry, technology and biology; Ingvar Lindqvist Prizes for teachers in fields such as physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics.
