The Lennart Nilsson Award recognizes outstanding contributions to scientific photography. Honorees are chosen based on the merits of their efforts in scientific imagery. It is administered by the foundation Stiftelsen Lennart Nilsson and awarded annually by Karolinska Institutet. The award sum is SEK 120,000. The award was inaugurated in 1998 in honor of Swedish photographer and scientist Lennart Nilsson (1922–2017) .
Award recipients According to the society's published list of award recipients: Nils Åslund, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm - 1998 James Henderson - 1999 David Malin, Anglo-Australian Observatory - 2000 David Doubilet - 2001 Oliver Meckes and Nicole Ottawa - 2002 David Barlow, University of Southampton - 2003 Göran Scharmer, Institute for Solar Physics - 2004 Frans Lanting - 2005 Satoshi Kuribayashi -2006 Felice Frankel Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2007 Anders Persson, Linköping University - 2008 Carolyn Porco, Space Science Institute and Babak Amin Tafreshi - 2009 Kenneth Libbrecht, California Institute of Technology - 2010 Nancy Kedersha, Harvard Medical School - 2011 Hans Blom, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm - 2012 Timothy Behrens, University of Oxford -2014 Katrin Willig, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen, Germany - 2015 Alexey Amunts, Stockholm University -2016 Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University - 2017 Thomas Deerinck, University of California, San Diego - 2018 Ed Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2019 Jan Husiken, Morgridge Institute Madison - 2020 Stephen Gschmeissner, Royal College of Surgeons and Cancer Research, UK - 2021 Martin Oeggerli, Micronaut, Switzerland - 2022 Fredrik Pleijel, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - 2023 Csaba Adori, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden - 2024 Maximilian Ackermann, RWTH University Clinics Aachen and Helios University Clinics, Wuppertal, Germany - 2025
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External links Lennart Nilsson Award Past winners of the Lennart Nilsson Award