Sven Olving#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1152 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Sven Olving passed away March 1, 2016.
Present and Previous Positions
- 1966 - 1989 Professor and former president of the Chalmers University of Technology
- 1961 - 1963 Associate Professor of electrical engineering at Chalmers University
- 1960 - 1961 Associate Professor at Cornell university in New York
- 1957 - 1960 Acting Associate Professor in electronics
- 1955 - 1957 Assistant teacher
- 1952 - 1955 Research assistant at Chalmers
Fields of Scholarship
- Electrical engineering
- Physical electronics
Honours and Awards
- 1972 Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences
- 1976 Member of the Royal Institute of Science and Letters Society in Gothenburg
- 1986 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1978 Honorary Fellow at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London
- 1989 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at the university of Strathclyde in Glasgow
