John Torkel Wallmark (4 June 1919 – 5 February 2007) was a Swedish electrical engineer and researcher in semiconductor electronics and innovation technology.
[1][2] In 1964, he returned to Sweden as a professor in solid state electronics at Chalmers University of Technology.
[1]) In 1983 he transferred to a personal professorship in innovation technology at Chalmers, which was the first in this subject area in Sweden.
[2] Torkel Wallmark's business in innovation technology has contributed to the establishment of seed companies based on research at Swedish technical colleges, especially Chalmers.
He was awarded the 1982 Polhems Prize for research in the field of solid state electronics, 1989 KTH's grand prize for building an innovation center at Chalmers,[4] and 1989 The Academy of Engineering Sciences major gold medal with the motivation "for his internationally outstanding efforts in semiconductor technology and his incentive for industrial new enterprise".