Svante Lindqvist

Svante Lindqvist (b. 1948) was appointed Museum Director of the Nobel Museum in 1998, a position he still holds. Previously he held a chair as Professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and he was Chairman of its Department for History of Science and Technology since 1989. He has a M.Sc.Eng. (Physics) from the Royal Institute of Technology (1977) and a Ph.D. in History of Science and Ideas from Uppsala University (1984). He was a Visiting Scholar in the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, during the academic year 1986–1987, and a Visiting Professor in the Department for History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania during the fall semester of 1992. During the academic year 1995–96, he was an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. In the fall of 2003 he will be a Visiting Professor in the STS Program at MIT.

	His dissertation, Technology on Trial: The Introduction of Steam Power Technology into Sweden, 1715–1736, Uppsala Studies in History of Science, 1 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1984), was awarded three national prizes, including the Letterstedt Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1985. Among his other other publications is a volume edited in 1993, Center on the Periphery: Historical Aspects of 20th-Century Swedish Physics (Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 1993) and another one in 2000, Museums of Modern Science, Nobel Symposium 112. He is a member of the Kuratorium (1992) and the Wissenschaftlichen Beirats (1998) of the Deutsches Museum, München; and of the Corporation Visiting Committee for the Humanities at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. (1996). During the period 1991—1999, he was on the Advisory Committee for the history project at the European Space Agency (ESA), Paris. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1992), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1994) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2002).