Bengt Hultqvist#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 354 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Bengt Hultqvist passed away February 24, 2019.
Positions Held
- 2001 - 2009 Secretary general of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA)
- 1995 - 1999 Director of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland
- since 1994 Professor emeritus
- 1987 - 1994 Professor in space physics at Swedish Institute of space physics
- 1973 - 1987 Professor in geocosmophysics at Kiruna Geophysical Institute
- 1967 - 1973 Professor in geocosmophysics at the University of Umeå
- 1987 - 1994 Director Swedish Institute of Space Physics
- 1973 - 1987 Director of Kiruna Geophysical Institute (governmental research institute)
- 1956 - 2973 Director of Kiruna Geophysical Observatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science
- 1951 - 1956 Staff member of the Institute of Radiophysics Stockholm
- 1950 - 1951 Teaching assistent in mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology,
Fields of Scholarship
- Radiophysics
- Space physics
- Magnetospheric physics
- Space plasma physics
Honours and Awards
- Knight of the Northern Star, 1965
- Author prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in1968
- Wallmark´s research prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1972
- The Gold Medal of the town of Kiruna, 1984
- Tsialkovsky Medal for Space Research, 1987
- “Norrlandsbjörnen” from Norrlandsförbundet, 1988
- The Grand Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences,1988
- COSPAR Prize for International Cooperation, 1990
- Fellow of American Geophysical Union, 1990
- King´s Medal 8th size, 1991
- Thulin Medal in gold from Swedish Society for Aero-SpaceTechnology, 1994
- Honorary Member of EISCAT 1994
- Honorary Member of the Swedish URSI Committee 1994
- Berzelius Medal in gold from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1994
- Julius Bartels Medal from the European Geophys.Soc.1996
- A ‘Bengt Hultqvist Price’ to be given each year to a student, established in 1997 by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics
- Hannes Alfvén Medal from the European Geophysical Society, 2002
- Astronomical observatory in Kiruna named ‘the Bengt Hultqvist Observatory’, 2003
- Rossby Price 2004 of the Swedish Geophysical Society
- Honorary Citizen of the town of Kiruna in 2007.
