The Cedergren Medal is a rarely granted honor awarded to outstanding scientists in electrical engineering 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, 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''). Lars Magnus was born in Värmskog ...

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

Ericsson (lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in informa ...

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, who was a pioneer in radio and television development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used ...

, (1944) * Reinhold Rudenberg, (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, #12 (2014)Cedergren Medal for Björn Ottersten
/ref> * Lennart Ljung, (2019)

References

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