John Torkel Wallmark (4 June 1919 – 5 February 2007) was a Swedish

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and researcher in

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and

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technology. Torkel Wallmark was born in

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. He graduated from the

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in 1944, became technology licentiate in 1947 and technology doctor in 1953. He was then a researcher at

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, US 1953–1964.Wallmark, Torkel
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Chalmers: Torkel Wallmark
read 10 August 2009 In 1964, he returned to Sweden as a professor in solid state electronics at

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. (The professorship was initially named electron physics III.) In 1983 he transferred to a personal professorship in innovation technology at Chalmers, which was the first in this subject area in Sweden. Torkel Wallmark's business in innovation technology has contributed to the establishment of

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based on research at Swedish technical colleges, especially Chalmers.

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band 19 (1996), the reference word '' Torkel Wallmark '' Torkel Wallmark was elected as a member of the

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in 1970 and became a member of the

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in 1984. He was awarded the 1982 Polhems Prize for research in the field of solid state electronics, 1989 KTH's grand prize for building an innovation center at Chalmers, and 1989 The Academy of Engineering Sciences major gold medal with the motivation "for his internationally outstanding efforts in semiconductor technology and his incentive for industrial new enterprise"''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Torkel Wallmark, J 1919 births 2007 deaths Engineers from Stockholm Swedish electrical engineers 20th-century Swedish engineers Academic staff of the Chalmers University of Technology Place of death missing KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni RCA people Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

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