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).[1] [2]
| Year | Laureate | Rationale |
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| 1904 | Carl Lundgren | |
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| 1940 | a statistical theory of the strength of metals | |
| 1945 | ||
| the propagation of radio waves | ||
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| 1955 | ||
| the continuous variation of the Mach number in a supersonic tunnel | ||
| 1960 | ||
| wool fabrics as garment construction materials | ||
| the measurement of rock pressure in mines | ||
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| 1990 | Harry Frank | |
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| 2009 | Laila Ohlgren | Nordic Mobile Telephone dialing procedure[3] |
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| 2013 | Petra Wadström | Solvatten |
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| 2015 | John Elvesjö and Mårten Skogö | |
| 2016 | ||
| 2017 | Daniel Stenberg | cURL |
| 2018 | Lars Stigsson and Valeri Naydenov | |
| 2019 | Peter Halldin, Hans von Holst and Svein Kleiven | |
| 2020 | μTorrent, Spotify | |
| 2021 | Rickard Öste and Angeliki Triantafyllou | |
| 2022 | Staffan Gestrelius | |