Baltzar von Platen (inventor)

He was the son of Philip Ludvig von Platen and Eva Hedvig Ingeborg Ehrenborg.

[3][4] Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters both received the Polhem Prize (Polhemspriset) awarded by Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers in 1925.

Baltzar von Platen was awarded the Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Medal in 1932.

He was awarded the Adelsköld Medal (Adelsköldska medaljen) in gold from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences during 1940.

Von Platen also worked with ASEA, Sweden's major electrical company, on the development of a process which used heat and pressure to produce diamonds.

This prototype cooling device invented by Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters in 1922 became the basis for a lot of refrigerators produced in Sweden and elsewhere.