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.<ref name=otter>[https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/news_events/cedergren_medal_for_bjoern_ottersten 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,<ref name=otter/> one of Europe's leading technical and engineering universities.<ref name=kth>[https://www.kth.se/en 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’s company in 1918 to become Allmänna Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson. Today, Ericsson is the world’s largest mobile communication network provider, holding 35% market share.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1IG35N2&ct=130813&st=sg|title=Gartner Reprint|website=www.gartner.com}}</ref>
==Partial list of recipients== * Charles P. Steinmetz, #1 (1914)<ref>[http://www.hevac-heritage.org/built_environment/pioneers_revisited/surnames_m-w/steinmetz.pdf Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Pioneer of Alternating Current]</ref> * Ernst Alexanderson, (1944)<ref>[http://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/ernst-alexanderson Ernst Alexanderson, Lemelson-MIT Program]</ref> * Reinhold Rudenberg, (1950) <ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.nature.com/articles/166717c0 | doi=10.1038/166717c0 | title=Cedergren Medal for 1949: Prof. R. Rüdenberg | journal=Nature | year=1950 | volume=166 | issue=4226 | page=717 | bibcode=1950Natur.166R.717. | s2cid=4202762 | doi-access=free }}</ref> * John Robinson Pierce, (1964) <ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lee |first1=John A. N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocx4Jc12mkgC&dq=%2522Cedergren+Medal%2522&pg=PA558 |title=International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers |last2=Lee |first2=J. A. N. |date=1995 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-884964-47-3 |language=en}}</ref> * Hannes Alfvén, (1988)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.alfvenlab.kth.se/hannes-honours.html |title=<!-- Saved from: http://www.alfvenlab.kth.se/hannes-honours.html --> Hannes Alfvén - Awards & Honours |access-date=2015-05-22 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150522120119/http://www.alfvenlab.kth.se/hannes-honours.html |archive-date=2015-05-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Björn Ottersten, #12 (2014)<ref>[https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/news_events/cedergren_medal_for_bjoern_ottersten Cedergren Medal for Björn Ottersten]</ref> *Lennart Ljung, (2019)
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