The Cedergren Medal is a rarely granted honor awarded to outstanding scientists in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

by the Cedergren Foundation. Only 14 have been issued since the recognition was created in 1914.Cedergren Medal for Bjoern Ottersten
/ref> Mathematics genius and electrical engineering pioneer Charles P. Steinmetz was the first recipient of the honor's silver medal. The award is administered on behalf of the foundation by the

KTH - Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a Public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in Institute of technology, engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest te ...

, one of Europe's leading technical and engineering universities.KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
/ref> In addition to funding the honor, the foundation, which was established in 1909, also uses its endowment fund's investment returns for scholarships to Swedish electro technicians. Namesake Henrik Tore Cedergren (1853-1909) was the founder of Stockholms Allmänna Telefon AB which merged with

Lars Magnus Ericsson Lars Magnus Ericsson (; 5 May 1846 – 17 December 1926) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson ( incorporated as ''Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson''). Early life Lars Magnus was born i ...

’s company in 1918 to become Allmänna Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson. Today,

Ericsson (), commonly known as Ericsson (), is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Ericsson has been a major contributor to the development of the telecommunications industry and is one ...

is the world’s largest mobile communication network provider, holding 35% market share.

Partial list of recipients

* Charles P. Steinmetz, #1 (1914) *

Ernst Alexanderson Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (; January 25, 1878 – May 14, 1975) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor who was a pioneer in radio development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used b ...

, (1944) *

Reinhold Rudenberg Reinhold Rudenberg (or Rüdenberg) was a German-American electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. Aside from improvements in electric power equipment, especially large alternating ...

, (1950) *

John Robinson Pierce John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Additionally to hi ...

, (1964) *

Hannes Alfvén Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now ...

, (1988) *

Björn Ottersten Björn Ottersten (born 1961) is a Swedish educator, researcher, and electrical engineer who is the co-inventor of Space/Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) technology. He has made contributions in array signal processing and wireless commu ...

, #12 (2014)Cedergren Medal for Björn Ottersten
/ref> * Lennart Ljung, (2019)

References

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