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

NameCountryYear
Harry Hutchinson HoltonCanada1981
Ricardo O FoschiCanada1982
Bruno Andersson, Egon Höglund, Bertil Johansson and Bengt ThöressonSweden1983
Leopoldo G Brandão, Edgard Campinhos Jr, Ney M Dos Santos and Yara K IkemoriBrazil1984
Karl-Erik Eriksson and T. Kent KirkSweden and USA1985
Johan GullichsenFinland1986
Derek Barnes and Mark T. ChurchlandCanada1987
Bernhard UlrichGermany1988
Torsten IngestadSweden1989
Donald H. MarxUSA1991
Nils Hartler and Ants TederSweden1993
Gene NamkoongCanada1994
Lennart Eriksson, Gerdt Fladda and Thorulf PetterssonSweden1995
Erkki TomppoFinland1997
Keith Miles and Donald MayCanada1998
Pekka Eskelinen, Raimo Virta and Vesa VuorinenFinland1999
Robert H. LeicesterAustralia2000
Robert EvansAustralia2001
Melvin TyreeUSA2002
Johanna Buchert, Maija Tenkanen, Tapani Vuorinen and Anita TelemanFinland and Sweden2003
Paul Olof MeinanderFinland2004
Tom Kjelgaard, Katarina Magnusson and Ulf RingdahlSweden2005
Antoine KremerFrance2006
Ove NilssonSweden2007
Bjarne Holmbom and Christer EckermanFinland2008
Jouni Ikäheimo, Vesa Kajander and Bengt WelinFinland2009
Hans Joachim BlassGermany2010
Erik NæssetNorway2011
Mika ViljanmaaFinland2012
Derek GrayCanada2013
Magnus BerggrenSweden2014
Akira Isogai, Tsuguyuki Saito and Yoshiharu NishiyamaJapan and France2015
Alexander Katsevich and Federico GiudiceandreaUSA and Italy2016
Ronald R. SederoffUSA2017
Torgny NäsholmSweden2018
Gerhard SchickhoferAustria2019
Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H. Waring and Nicholas CoopsAustralia, USA and Canada2020
Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Herbert SixtaFinland and Austria2022
Darius M. Adams, Joseph Buongiorno and Richard HaynesUSA2023
John Ralph and Wout BoerjanUSA and Belgium2024
Gerald TuskanUSA2025