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"KTH" redirects here. For other uses, see KTH (disambiguation).
Royal Institute of Technology
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
File:Kth logo.svg
MottoVetenskap och Konst ("Science and Art")
TypePublic University
Established1827
ChairmanDr. Cecilia Schelin Seidegård
RectorProf. Peter Gudmundson
Academic staff
500
Students13,500
1,500
Location
Stockholm
,
Sweden
CampusUrban
AffiliationsCLUSTER, CESAER, EUA, TIME network et al.
Websitewww.kth.se

The Royal Institute of Technology or Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 and is with TKK in Helsinki, depending on definition, Scandinavia's largest institution of higher education in technology and one of the leading technical universities in Europe [1].

Campus

The main campus building at Valhallavägen in Östermalm, by architect Erik Lallerstedt, was completed in 1917. The buildings and surroundings were decorated by prominent early 20th century Swedish artists such as Carl Milles, Axel Törneman, Georg Pauli, Tore Strindberg and Ivar Johnsson. The older buildings on the campus went through a complete renovation in 1994. While the original campus was large for its time, KTH very soon outgrew it and the campus was expanded with new buildings. Today KTH institutions and faculties are distributed across several campuses in Stockholm County, located in Flemingsberg, Haninge, Kista and Södertälje in addition to the ones in Östermalm.

Main building in winter
Main building in the summer
KTH "Court Yard" ("borggården")
Kerberos guarding the entrance to KTH

History

The origin of the school was the Technological Institute (Teknologiska institutet), which was started in 1827. In 1877 the name was changed into the current one.

R1

After the American deployment of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II, the Swedish military leadership recognized the need for nuclear weapons to be thoroughly investigated and researched to provide Sweden with the knowledge to defend itself from a nuclear attack. At that time, Sweden knew virtually nothing about nuclear physics, as all information and research around were kept strictly confidential by the United States. With the mission to "make something with neutrons", the Swedish team, with scientists like Rolf Maximilian Sievert, set out to research the subject and eventually build a nuclear reactor for testing.

After a few years of basic research, they started building a 300 kW (later expanded to 1 MW) reactor, named "Reaktor 1", R1 for short, in a reactor hall 25 meters under the surface right underneath KTH. Today this might seem ill-considered, since approximately 40,000 people lived within a 1 km radius. It was risky, but were deemed tolerable since the reactor was an important research tool for scientists at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien).

At 18:59, 13 July 1954, the reactor reached critical mass and sustained Sweden's first nuclear reaction. R1 was to be the main site for almost all Swedish nuclear research until 1970 when the reactor was finally decommissioned, mostly due to the increased awareness of the risks associated with operating a reactor in a densely populated area of Stockholm. The reactor hall remains an amusement to many as once it was next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor. Close to the reactor hall is the restaurant Q.

Organization

From 2005 KTH is organized into nine schools each consisting of a number of departments:

Notable alumni

Many Swedish industrial leaders have graduated from KTH.

Notable faculty

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ "World Top 100 University Engineering Faculties" International Ranking, Retrieved on 2007-05-24

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