It is Lars-Jonas Angstrom's view that Hoagland has been "...using the award for something that it was not intended to be,...[giving] us and our basic idea a lot of "bad will" and unnecessary trouble and work." (See Letter to Alan G. Archer, 18 May 2000.) As for the reasons why Hoagland was awarded the Angstrom Medal, Angstrom explained them to Dr. Ralph Greenberg on 21 April 1998. Angstrom:

As for Hoagland, he was not awarded the medal for his investigations in connection with Cydonia, but rather for his hypothesis of the possibility of different laws of physics in our Solar System once being outside the very special conditions that prevail on Earth. For example, the physics in rotating gas masses and the energy involved. Also, his old hypothesis of water existing on Europa was of interest. (Grammer and spelling corrected by Dr. Greenberg.)

Herbie Brennan (yes, you may laugh) wrote on page 9 in his 1998 book, "Martian Genesis: The Extraterrestrial Origins of the Human Race," that Hoagland was awarded the Angstrom Medal "... for his work on hyperdimensional physics and its technological implications."

My reply to E'telekeli was to make it clear that I do not believe that Hoagland was the creator of the Angstrom Medal award and that Hoagland is probably better described as a popularizer of what is called "hyperdimensional physics." I am not all that concerned with my latter point.

You wrote:
The university he got it from asked for it back when they learned what he was touting it as in fact, and he refused to do so.

It is possible that someone at Uppsala University may have asked Hoagland to return the Angstrom memorial medal to the university or to Angstrom or to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but it is quite clear to me that Hoagland obtained the medal and his award from Angstrom and The Angstrom Foundation AB, not from Uppsala University.

You can read more of my examination of The Angstrom Foundation AB at There's Something About Angstrom.

Alan