List of Swedish scientists

List of Swedish scientists

Chemistry

*Johan August Arfwedson, (1792-1841), "chemist"
*Svante Arrhenius, (1859-1927), "chemist" and "physicist"
*Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779-1848), "chemist"
*Lars Ernster, (1920-1998), "biochemistry", member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
*Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), "chemist" and founder of the Nobel Prizes
*Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786), "chemist"
*Nils Gabriel Sefström, (1787-1845), "chemist"
*Theodor Svedberg, (1884-1971), "chemist"

Engineering

*Nils Alwall, (1904-86), inventor and engineer
*Arne Asplund (1903-1993), inventor and engineer
*Nils Bohlin, (1920-2002), inventor and engineer
*Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), inventor and engineer
*Rune Elmqvist, (1906-1996), inventor and engineer
*John Ericsson, (1803-1889), inventor and engineer
*Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), inventor and engineer
*Bengt Gadefelt, (1924-2001), inventor and engineer
*Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), inventor and engineer
*Johan Petter Johansson, (1864-1943), inventor and engineer
*Håkan Lans, (1942-), inventor and engineer
*Gustaf de Laval (1845-1913), inventor and engineer
*Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, (1862-1931), inventor and engineer
*Carl Rickard Nyberg, (1858-1939), inventor and engineer
*Gustaf Erik Pasch, (1788-1862), inventor and engineer
*Baltzar von Platen, (1898-1984), inventor and engineer
*Erik Wallenberg, (1915–1999), inventor and engineer
*Jonas Wenström, (1855-93), inventor and engineer
*Sven Wingquist, (1876-1953), inventor and engineer

Physics and astronomy

*Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), "physicist"
*Oskar Backlund (1846-1916), "astronomer"
*Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), "astronomer"
*Bengt Edlén, (1906-1993), "physicist"
*V. Walfrid Ekman, (1874-1954), "physical oceanographer"
*Oskar Klein, (1894-1977), "physicist"
*Sofia Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), "physicist", "matematician"
*Knut Lundmark, (1889–1958), "astronomer"
*Lise Meitner, (1878–1968), "nuclear physicist"
*Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), "physicist"
*Carl-Gustaf Rossby, (1898–1957), "meteorologist"
*Janne Rydberg, (1854-1919), "physicist"
*Manne Siegbahn, (1886-1978), "physicist"
*Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), "physicist"

Medicine and botany

*Arvid Carlsson, (1923- ), "neuroscientist"
*Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), "botanist"
*Eric Leonard Ekman, (1883-1931), "botanist"
*Elias Magnus Fries, (1794-1878), "botanist"
*Allvar Gullstrand, (1862-1930), "medicine"
*Pehr Kalm, (1716-1779), "botanist"
*Carolus Linnaeus, (1707-1778), "botanist", "the father of taxonomy"
*René Malaise, (1892-1978), "entomologist"
*Olaus Rudbeckius, (1630-1702), "medicine"
*Olaus Rudbeckius, junior, (1660-1740), "botanist"
*Daniel Solander (1733-1782), "botanist"
*Hugo Theorell (1903-1982), "medicine"
*Peter Gustaf Tengmalm (1754-1803), "naturalist"

Mathematics

*Arne Beurling, (1905-1986), "mathematician"
*Albert Victor Bäcklund, "mathematician"
*Lennart Carleson, "mathematician"
*Björn Engquist, "mathematician"
*Erik Ivar Fredholm, "mathematician"
*Johan Håstad, "mathematician"
*Lars Hörmander, (born 1931), "mathematician"
*Helge von Koch, (1870-1924), "mathematician"
*Anders Martin-Löf, "mathematician"
*Gösta Mittag-Leffler, (1846-1927), "mathematician"
*Waloddi Weibull, "mathematician"

Other natural scientists

* Arne Bjerhammar (1917 -), "geodesist"
* Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901), "geologist", "Arctic explorer"
* Otto Nordenskiöld (6 December 1869-1928), "geologist", "explorer"

Social sciences

* Alvar Ellegård (1919- ), "linguist", "confessional beliefs"

See also

* Nobel Prize
* Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences


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