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  • Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph  receive the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph receive the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph receive the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize
    Pioneering research for advanced understanding of lignin
    The 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph for their groundbreaking research leading to a fuller understanding of lignin biosynthesis and structural diversity. King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the prize on Monday 11

  • From left Mikael Hannus, Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, Herbert Sixta, Aalto university, Ilkka Kilpeläinen, University of Helsinki and Johanna Buchert, Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

    Sustainable concept for wood-based textile fibres

    The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres.

    The future demand for textile fibres is growing due to global population growth. Production of cotton, the predominantly used cellulose fibre for textiles, is not expected to ke

  • Von links Mikael Hannus, Marcus-Wallenberg-Stiftung, Herbert Sixta, Aalto-Universität, Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Universität Helsinki und Johanna Buchert, Marcus-Wallenberg-Stiftung.

    Ein nachhaltiges Konzept für Textilfasern auf Holzbasis

    Der Marcus-Wallenberg-Preis 2022 wird an Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen und Professor Herbert Sixta für die Entwicklung und den Einsatz neuartiger ionischer Flüssigkeiten zur Verarbeitung von Holzbiomasse zu Hochleistungs-Textilfasern verliehen.
    Die künftige Nachfrage nach Textilfasern steigt aufgrund des weltweiten Bevölkerungswachstums. Es wird erwartet, dass die Produktion von Baumwolle, der am

  • Vasemmalta Mikael Hannus, Marcus Wallenbergin säätiö, Herbert Sixta, Aalto-yliopistossa, Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Helsingin yliopistoon ja Johanna Buchert, Marcus Wallenbergin säätiö.

    Marcus Wallenberg -palkinto puupohjaisten tekstiilikuitujen uudelle tuotantoprosessille

    Vuoden 2022 Marcus Wallenberg -palkinto myönnetään professori Ilkka Kilpeläiselle ja professori Herbert Sixtalle uudenlaisten ionisten liuottimien kehittämisestä ja soveltamisesta puubiomassan prosessoinnissa korkealaatuisiksi tekstiilikuiduiksi.

    Tekstiilikuitujen kysyntä kasvaa tulevaisuudessa maapallon väestönkasvun vuoksi. Tekstiileissä tällä hetkellä pääasiallisesti käytettävä selluloo

  • Fr v Mikael Hannus, Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen, Herbert Sixta, Aalto-universitetet, Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Helsingfors universitet och Johanna Buchert, Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen.

    Hållbar process för träbaserade textilfibrer

    Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2022 tilldelas professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen och professor Herbert Sixta för utveckling och användning av nya joniska vätskor för konvertering av pappersmassa till högpresterande textilfibrer.
    Den framtida efterfrågan på textilfibrer ökar på grund av den globala befolkningsökningen. Produktionen av bomull, den cellulosafiber som främst används för textilier, förväntas inte

  • Marcus Wallenberg present the Marcus Wallenberg Prize at a digital prize ceremony. From above  laureates Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops.

    Digital prize ceremony for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    A digital prize ceremony for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize was accomplished yesterday. The three professors Joseph J Landsberg, Australia, Richard H Waring, USA, and Nicholas C Coops, Canada were awarded for a model, 3PG, with addition of advanced satellite imagery analysis. The result is a powerful tool for predicting forest growth and assessing the risks to the world's forests posed by climate ch

  • Marcus Wallenberg delar ut Marcus Wallenbergpriset vid en digital prisceremoni. Från ovan pristagarna  Joseph J. Landsberg, Richard H. Waring och Nicholas C. Coops.

    Digital prisceremoni för Marcus Wallenbergpriset

    Igår genomfördes en digital prisutdelning av Marcus Wallenbergpriset. De tre professorerna Joseph J. Landsberg, Australien, Richard H. Waring, USA och Nicholas C. Coops, Kanada belönades med priset för en modell, 3PG, som kompletterats med avancerad satellitbildsanalys. Resultatet är ett kraftfullt verktyg för att förutsäga skogstillväxt och bedöma vilka risker som klimatförändringarna innebär för

  • Marcus Wallenberg Prize laureates 2020. From left: Nicholas C Coops, Joseph J Landsberg and Richard H Waring.

    Invitation to The Marcus Wallenberg Prize Digital Ceremony and Symposium on October 26, 09:00 CEST

    Welcome to the Marcus Wallenberg Prize Digital Ceremony and Symposium where we will honor the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize laureates Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops.
    Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops receive the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for their groundbreaking work in developing forest growth models based on tree ecophysiology, and further

  • Paul Dupree holding a model of cellulose and xylan, the two most abundant polysaccharides in wood. (Photo: Rhys Grant)

    The award exposes important forest research to industry

    Putting science into practice is a joint ambition of the new members of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize Selection Committee. The forest sector has a key role in addressing the global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss or increased demand of materials substituting fossil raw materials.

  • The Prize is awarded for scientific achievements of importance to forestry and forest industries.

    MWP Call for nominations

    The Board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and its Selection Committee invite individuals and institutions, globally, to nominate candidates for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

  • Mikael Hannus hopes to extend awareness of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize beyond the activities associated with the award ceremony.

    Wants to make the prize more widely known

    Mikael Hannus wants to spread the events over the whole year and identify new target groups in both society and academia. He has great respect for the traditions that have been established since the first Marcus Wallenberg Prize was awarded in 1981, but is at the same time open to changes that are able to unite science and the forest industry in completely new contexts.

  • The 3PG model spread world wide.

    Simplicity explains the success

    Open access was important to the researchers developing the 3PG model, adopted worldwide by both science and forestry. The simple and powerful tool to predict forest growth is awarded the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

  • The Marcus Wallenberg Prize has focused on scientific findings in a wide range of areas during Kaj Rosén’s years as Executive Secretary.

    From discoveries to scientific breakthroughs

    Kaj Rosén has emphasized the importance of high scientific standards during his years as Executive Secretary for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize. “As long as the nominations were based on serious research, we had the courage to reward scientific breakthroughs that had not yet been applied. We were constantly raising the bar”, Kaj Rosén says.

  • Next Marcus Wallenberg Prize event will be held in autumn of 2021.

    The Marcus Wallenberg Prize postponed to autumn 2021

    The Prize event was planned for October 2020. The Marcus Wallenberg Foundation has however decided to postpone the ceremony and symposium due to the COVID-19 pandemic with its increased uncertainty regarding travelling recommendations.

  • Nicholas C Coops, Joseph J Landsberg and Richard H Waring share the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

    Model for forest growth during climate change

    Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops, share the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for a model to predict forest growth in a changing climate. Satellite imagery offers the possibility to scale up the model to show how different environmental conditions affect the world's forests.

  • Mikael Hannus is the new Executive Secretary for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

    New Executive Secretary of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

    The Board of Directors of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation has appointed Mikael Hannus as the Executive Secretary, responsible for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, based in Sweden. Professor Annika Nordin has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the foundation. She is Professor in forest science at the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, SLU.

  • Professor Torgny Näsholm receiving the 2018 Marcus Wallenberg Prize from the hands of King Carl XVI Gustaf. Photo: Johan Gunséus.

    The Marcus Wallenberg Prize for findings on the nutrition of trees

    King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the 2018 Marcus Wallenberg Prize of SEK 2 million to Professor Torgny Näsholm at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday 24 September 2018. Torgny Näsholm has examined the role of amino acids in supplying the nitrogen required for the growth of forest trees. His work has caused a breakthrough in explaining the nutrition of plants.