Stig Torsten Stenholm (26 February 1939 – 30 September 2017) was a theoretical physicist[1] who formerly held an Academy of Finland professorship.
at Oxford in 1967 on the topic of quantum liquids under supervision of Dirk ter Haar.
In 1980, Stenholm was appointed as the scientific director of the Research Institute for Theoretical Physics (TFT).
His colleague Kalle-Antti Suominen later affirmed: "As a director Stig was very broad-minded and without this the happy atmosphere of TFT could not have existed.
He delivered the presentation speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall.