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
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- Karl Jöreskog, statistician, a co-author of LISREL statistical program.
[edit] Other natural scientists
- Arne Bjerhammar (1917 -), geodesist
- Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901), geologist, Arctic explorer
- Otto Nordenskiöld (6 December 1869-1928), geologist, explorer
[edit] Social sciences
- Alvar Ellegård (1919- ), linguist, confessional beliefs
