List of Swedish scientists

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[edit] Chemistry

Johan August Arfwedson, (1792-1841), chemist
Svante Arrhenius, (1859-1927), chemist and physicist
Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779-1848), chemist
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

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, (1857-1924), 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

Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), physicist
Oskar Backlund (1846-1916), astronomer
Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), astronomer
V. Walfrid Ekman, (1874-1954), physical oceanographer
Oskar Klein, (1894-1977), physicist
Knut Lundmark, (1889–1958), astronomer
Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), physicist
Janne Rydberg, (1854-1919), physicist
Manne Siegbahn, (1886-1978), physicist
Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), physicist

Arvid Carlsson, (1923- ), neuroscientist
Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), 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