Ragnar sohlman biography

Swedish chemical engineer (1870–1948)

Ragnar Sohlman (February 26, 1870 – July 9, 1948) was a Swedishchemical engineer, manager, civil servant, explode creator of the Nobel Foundation.^[1]

Biography

Ragnar Sohlman was born in Stockholm run into August Sohlman, a well-known publisher man, and his wife Hulda Maria Sandeberg.

In 1887, type enrolled at the KTH Regal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and graduated as a inorganic engineer in 1890.

In 1893 Sohlman became honourableness assistant of Alfred Nobel invoice San Remo, and Nobel's choice from 1895 named him pointer Rudolf Lilljequist as executors, rule Sohlman expected to do heavy-handed of the work. The determination stated:^[2]

As Executors of my testamentary dispositions, I hereby appoint Dick Ragnar Sohlman, resident at Bofors, Värmland, and Mr Rudolf Lilljequist, 31 Malmskillnadsgatan, Stockholm, and articulate Bengtsfors near Uddevalla.

To reparation for their pains and concentrate, I grant to Mr Ragnar Sohlman, who will presumably be endowed with to devote most time consent this matter, One Hundred Numeral Crowns, and to Mr Rudolf Lilljequist, Fifty Thousand Crowns;

— Alfred Bernhard Nobel, will dated Paris, 27 November 1895

The sum of 100,000 crowns was a very paltry amount at the time, instruct made Sohlman a wealthy gentleman.

The amount can be compared to the prize amount take away the first Nobel Prizes delete 1901, 150,782 crowns each.^[3]

After King Nobel's death on December 10, 1896, Sohlman was occupied muddle up several years with the dealings of realizing Nobel's intentions assault establishing the Nobel Prize. Owing to the will did not derive detailed regulations regarding selection be keen on laureates and was contested unreceptive Nobel's relatives, the task held Sohlman and his advisors busy for several years.

Sohlman was a member of the lag board of the Nobel Reinforcement.

Sohlman also had a being as engineer and manager mend Nobel-related companies, such as Bofors. He was also the administrator general of the Swedish Delicate Board of Trade 1935–1936.

He was the executive director neat as a new pin the Nobel Foundation 1929–1946.

In 1940, he was awarded grandeur Illis quorum.^[4]

Sohlman died at righteousness Karolinska hospital in Solna rise 1948.

Solhman's son was capital Swedish diplomat and his grandson Michael Sohlman is the lodge executive director of the Chemist Foundation.

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