List of Swedish scientists

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Contents 1 Chemistry 2 Engineering 3 Physics and astronomy 4 Medicine and botany 5 Mathematics 6 Other natural scientists 7 Social sciences 8 See also

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 kuko 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
• Arvid Palmgren, (1890-1971), engineer (bearing life calculation)
• 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, mathematician
• 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, (1814-1874), physicist
• Per-Olov Löwdin, (1916-2000), physicist

Medicine and botany

• Arvid Carlsson, (1923- ), neuroscientist
• Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), botanist
• Eva Ekeblad, (1724-1786), agronomist
• Erik Leonard Ekman, (1883-1931), botanist
• Ulf von Euler, (1905-1983), physiologist and pharmacologist
• 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), analysis
• Albert Victor Bäcklund
• Lennart Carleson, analysis
• Harald Cramér, probability and statistics
• Per Enflo, analysis
• Björn Engquist, numerical analysis
• Erik Ivar Fredholm, analysis
• Johan Håstad, theoretical computer scientist
• Lars Hörmander, (born 1931), analysis
• Karl Gustav Jöreskog, statistics
• Olav Kallenberg, probability
• Helge von Koch, (1870-1924), analysis
• Per Martin-Löf, logic, statistics, and computer science
• Anders Martin-Löf, analysis and mathematical physics
• Gösta Mittag-Leffler, (1846-1927), analysis
• Waloddi Weibull
• Herman Wold, probability and statistics

Other natural scientists

• Arne Bjerhammar (1917 - 2011), 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