The
Royal Academies are independent organisations, founded on
Royal command, and acts to promote arts, culture and sciences in
Sweden. The
Swedish Academy and
Academy of Sciences are also responisble for the slection of
Nobel Prize laureates in
Literature,
Physics,
Chemistry, and
Prize in Economic Sciences. In the Royal Academies are also included three scientific societies that were given Royal Charters during the
18th century.
See also: List of Swedes, List of Swedish monarchs