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Winners of the Olav Thon Foundation Award 2026
Read more about the Olav Thon Foundation’s national award for excellence in teaching and Nordic research collaboration in medicine 2026.
2015 - 2025
Read more about previous awards
In 2013 Olav Thon transferred the majority of his assets that was shares in Olav Thon Gruppen AS, worth NOK 25 billion, to the Olav Thon Foundation.
The Chairman of the Board
Olav Thon was born in 1923. He grew up on the Thon farm in Hallingdal, 880 metres above sea level. Like most children at the time, he had to do everything it was possible to ask of a little boy, from tending the cows in the outlying fields and helping to herd them out into the summer pastures.
2020
For the sixth year in a row, the Olav Thon Foundation shares awards for research and outstanding teaching in the mathematical-natural sciences and medical fields. Pictures from the awards ceremony 2020 held in University Aula, Oslo.
Photo: Terje Heiestad/UiO
2019
For the fifth year in a row, the Olav Thon Foundation shares awards for research and outstanding teaching in the mathematical-natural sciences and medical fields. Pictures from the awards ceremony 2019 held in University Aula, Oslo.
Photo: Terje Heiestad/UiO
2018
The Olav Thon Foundation award winners of 2018 attended a formal ceremony at the University Aula in Oslo.
«The ceremony was a wonderful event. I hope it inspired the prize winners and that the ceremony also can contribute to inspire winners in the future», says Olav Thon.
Foto: Katrine Lunke/APELAND.