Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists

The Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists is a prize awarded biennially from 1994 onwards to recognise outstanding individuals within the science of ecology. The Award is an honorarium of SEK 50,000. The award is given by the Kempe Foundations  (Kempefonden), Umeå University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in cooperation.

Kempe Award Laureates

 * 1994 Stuart L. Pimm 🇺🇸
 * 1996 F. Stuart Chapin III 🇺🇸
 * 1998 John Lawton 🇬🇧
 * 2000 Daniel Simberloff 🇺🇸
 * 2002 David Read 🇬🇧
 * 2004 Mary Power 🇺🇸
 * 2006 Peter M. Vitousek 🇺🇸
 * 2008 Stephen P. Hubbell 🇺🇸
 * 2011 Ilkka Hanski 🇫🇮