13 Facts About Sigvard Eklund

Sigvard Arne Eklund was Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1961 to 1981.

Sigvard Eklund was Docent in nuclear physics at the Royal Institute of Technology and an employee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics from 1937 to 1945.

Sigvard Eklund was an associate professor at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute from 1945 to 1950 and became director of research at the Swedish Atomic Energy Company in 1950.

Sigvard Eklund became technical director there in 1957 and led the effort to build Sweden's first research reactor, R1.

Sigvard Eklund was appointed as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1961.

Sigvard Eklund was reappointed four more times in 1965,1969,1974 and 1977, holding the post for twenty consecutive years until he retired and was named Director General Emeritus.

Sigvard Eklund became a member of the Swedish National Commission for Physics in 1947 and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1953.

Sigvard Eklund became an honorary doctor in Graz in 1968, in Krakow 1971 and in Bucharest in 1971.

Sigvard Eklund became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1972 and honorary doctor of technology at Chalmers University of Technology in 1974 and at the Columbia University in 1977.

Sigvard Eklund became an honorary doctor in Moscow in 1977 and in Buenos Aires in 1977.

Sigvard Eklund became an honorary doctor of technology in Budapest in 1977, an honorary senator at the University of Vienna in 1977, an honorary doctor of technology in Dresden in 1978, at the Yonsei University in Seoul in 1978, at the National Agrarian University in Peru in 1979 and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1980.

Sigvard Eklund became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in United States in 1979.

Sigvard Eklund received the American Atoms for Peace Award in 1968.