Marcus Wallenberg Prize

The Marcus Wallenberg Prize is the highest award in the field of forestry.

Established in 1981, the award is modeled on the Nobel Prize, and colloquially called the "Nobel Prize for Forestry". The award is named after the Swedish Industrialist Marcus Wallenberg Jr. who was managing director and subsequently chairman of Stockholms Enskilda Bank and later chairman and honorary chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, as well as chairman and honorary chairman of a number of Swedish and international organisations and companies. The Marcus Wallenberg Prize was instituted by Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB at its annual meeting in 1980 to commemorate the services rendered by Dr. Marcus Wallenberg during his long term as member and chairman of the board of directors.

Every year a selection committee decides on the recipient from nominations received from academics and research organisations. The award is awarded in the autumn of each year in Stockholm, Sweden, at a symposium consisting of lectures from the recipient and invited speakers. The 2020 Award ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recipients

Name Country YearHarry Hutchinson HoltonCanada 1981Ricardo O FoschiCanada 1982Bruno Andersson, Egon Höglund, Bertil Johansson and Bengt ThöressonSweden 1983Leopoldo G Brandão, Edgard Campinhos Jr, Ney M Dos Santos and Yara K IkemoriBrazil 1984Karl-Erik Eriksson and T. Kent KirkSweden and USA 1985Johan GullichsenFinland 1986Derek Barnes and Mark T. ChurchlandCanada 1987Bernhard UlrichGermany 1988Torsten IngestadSweden 1989Donald H. MarxUSA1991Nils Hartler and Ants TederSweden1993Gene NamkoongCanada 1994 Lennart Eriksson, Gerdt Fladda and Thorulf PetterssonSweden 1995 Erkki TomppoFinland1997 Keith Miles and Donald MayCanada1998 Pekka Eskelinen, Raimo Virta and Vesa VuorinenFinland1999 Robert H. LeicesterAustralia2000 Robert EvansAustralia2001 Melvin TyreeUSA 2002 Johanna Buchert, Maija Tenkanen, Tapani Vuorinen and Anita TelemanFinland and Sweden 2003 Paul Olof MeinanderFinland2004 Tom Kjelgaard, Katarina Magnusson and Ulf RingdahlSweden 2005 Antoine KremerFrance2006Ove NilssonSweden 2007Bjarne Holmbom and Christer EckermanFinland2008Jouni Ikäheimo, Vesa Kajander and Bengt WelinFinland2009Hans Joachim BlassGermany2010Erik NæssetNorway2011Mika ViljanmaaFinland2012Derek GrayCanada2013Magnus BerggrenSweden2014Akira Isogai, Tsuguyuki Saito and Yoshiharu NishiyamaJapan and France2015Alexander Katsevich and Federico GiudiceandreaUSA and Italy2016Ronald R. SederoffUSA2017Torgny NäsholmSweden2018Gerhard SchickhoferAustria2019Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H. Waring and Nicholas CoopsAustralia, USA and Canada2020Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Herbert SixtaFinland and Austria2022Darius M. Adams, Joseph Buongiorno and Richard HaynesUSA2023John Ralph and Wout BoerjanUSA and Belgium2024Gerald TuskanUSA2025Holger MilitzSustainable wood modification technologies with industrial applicability. Retrieved 2026-04-20. Germany2026

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