The Torsten Söderberg Foundation awards or has awarded prizes in medicine, economics, jurisprudence, design and crafts, commerce and journalism in the Foundation's main fields. The prizes are intended to highlight outstanding achievements in each field and to stimulate further research and development.
The SEK 1 million Söderberg Prize is awarded every two years to outstanding researchers in economics or law and every two years in medicine. In the first case, the recipient is chosen in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Vetenskapsakademien, in the second case in cooperation with the Swedish Medical Society.
The Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize highlighted innovation and excellence in arts and crafts and design. The prize was worth SEK 1 million and was awarded by the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg for 25 years.
The Söderberg Trade Prize of SEK 500,000 is awarded to a person who, through outstanding theoretical or practical efforts, has contributed to the development of distribution in a broad sense. The prize was last awarded in 2013.
The Söderberg Journalism Prize is awarded for excellence in science journalism, particularly to those who have contributed to the dissemination of knowledge in medicine, economics or law. The prize was last awarded in 2009.
During the twenty years that the prize has been awarded, a wide variety of areas in criminology and related fields have been recognized. The Foundation for the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, founded by the Swedish government and the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, is behind the prize.
Frances Crook and Bryan Stevenson are awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for their success in reducing the incidence of disproportionate punishment through the application of criminological research in their respective professional roles. They will receive the prize from Her Majesty the Queen on...
Frances Crook and Bryan Stevenson are awarded the prize for their success in reducing disproportionate sentences through the application of criminological research in their respective professional roles. Among other things, the laureates' application has reduced the detention of young...
Professors Gary LaFree and Tom R. Tyler are awarded this year's prize of SEK 1 million for their research on the democratic legitimacy and legal certainty of the state's relationship with citizens. They receive the Stockholm Prize in Criminology from H.M....
Due to the passing of Tomas Söderberg, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation has decided that the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize in Design and Crafts 2018 was the last to be awarded. The Röhsska Museum, which has awarded the prize...
The Röhsska Museum's Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize Committee, with funding from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, has decided to award Brynjar Sigurðarson this year's prize of SEK 1 million.
Markus Heilig, Professor of Psychiatry at Linköping University, receives the 2018 Söderberg Prize in Medicine for important research contributions to the understanding of affective disorders and alcoholism.
The Röhsska Museum's Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize Committee, with funding from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, has decided to award Daniel Rybakken this year's prize of SEK 1 million.
The Röhsska Museum's Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize Committee, with funding from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, has decided to award Margrethe Odgaard this year's prize of SEK 1 million.
