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Tord Hjalmar Ganelius (born 23 May 1925 in Stockholm) is a Swedish mathematician and professor emeritus. He served as permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was member of the board of the Nobel Foundation in 1981-1989. His main areas of research was within holomorphic functions and approximation theory.

Education and career
Ganelius completed his Ph.D. in 1953 at Stockholms Högskola (Stockholm University since 1960) by presenting his dissertation ‘‘Sequences of Analytic Functions and Their Zeros''.

He was an Associate Professor at Lund University 1953-1956 and he was 1957 appointed Professor of Mathematics at Gothenburg University where he served until 1981. He was Dean of the faculty of Science 1963-1965 and 1977-1980. Ganelius was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1972 and was appointed permanent secretary in 1981, a position he held until 1989. Every year in Octobre he announced the Nobel Prize laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences (in memory of Alfred Nobel). Tord Ganelius was boardmember of the Nobel Foundation 1981-1989.

Tord Ganelius has also been a visiting professor at the University of Washington in 1962, Cornell University, 1967-68 and University of California, San Diego 1972-1973.

Ganelius published in 1966 the book ”Introduktion till matematiken” (Introduction to Mathematics) which since 2006 is availabe on-line via e.g. the Swedish National Center for Mathematics Education.

Family
Tord Ganelius is the son of Hjalmar and Ebba G. He married in 1951 with Aggie Hemberg born in 1928. They have four children Per (1952), Truls (1955), Svante (1957) and Aggie Öhman (1963).