!!!Bengt Hultqvist \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='hultqvist_bengt_small.jpg' alt='Bengt Hultqvist' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ 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__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __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. \\ \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Hultqvist_Bengt/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Hultqvist_Bengt/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Hultqvist_Bengt/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Hultqvist_Bengt/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit bhultqvist}] [{ALLOW upload bhultqvist}] [{ALLOW comment All}]