Tord Hjalmar Ganelius (born 23 May 1925 in

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, dead 14 March 2016 in Stockholm) was a

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and

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. He served as Permanent Secretary of the

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and was a board member of the

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from 1981 to 1989.

His primary research interests were

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and

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Education and career

Ganelius completed his

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in 1953 at Stockholms Högskola (known as

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since 1960) by presenting his dissertation ''Sequences of Analytic Functions and Their Zeros''. He was an

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, where he served until 1981. During this time he was Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, in 1963–65 and 1977–80. In 1972, he was elected a member of the

and he was appointed the permanent secretary in 1981, a position he held until 1989. He was a board member of the

from 1981 to 1989, and every October he announced the

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in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences. Tord Ganelius has also been a

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at the

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in 1962,

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in 1967–68 and the

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in 1972–73. In 1966, Ganelius published the Swedish-language mathematics textbook ”Introduktion till matematiken”, which since 2006 has been available on-line.

Family

Tord Ganelius is the son of Hjalmar and Ebba G. In 1951 he married Aggie Hemberg (born 1928). They have four children: Per (1952), Truls (1955), Svante (1957) and Aggie Öhman (1963).

References

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