List of Swedish scientists
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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
- 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 (1947-), 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
- Karl Johan Åström (1934-), engineer (control theorist)
Environmental Science
- Johan Rockström (1965- ), professor in Environmental Science and executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
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 (1845-1922),
- Lennart Carleson (Born 1928), analysis
- Harald Cramér (1893-1985), probability and statistics
- Per Enflo (Born 1944), analysis
- Björn Engquist (Born 1945), numerical analysis
- Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866-1927), analysis
- Johan Håstad (Born 1960), theoretical computer scientist
- Lars Hörmander (1931-2012), analysis
- Karl Gustav Jöreskog (Born 1935), statistics
- Olav Kallenberg (Born 1939), probability
- Helge von Koch (1870-1924), analysis
- Per Martin-Löf (Born 1942), logic, statistics, and computer science
- Anders Martin-Löf (Born 1940), analysis and mathematical physics
- Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927), analysis
- Waloddi Weibull (1887-1979),
- Herman Wold (1908-1992), 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 (1919-2008 ), linguist, confessional beliefs