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List of Swedish scientists

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List of Swedish scientists

This is a list of Swedish scientists.

Contents

Biology and environmental science

  • Albertina Carlsson (1848-1930), zoologist
  • Jonas C. Dryander (1748-1810), botanist
  • Eva Ekeblad (1724-1786), agronomist
  • Erik Leonard Ekman (1883-1931), botanist
  • Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), botanist
  • Pehr Kalm (1716-1779), botanist
  • Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), botanist, "father of taxonomy"
  • René Malaise (1892-1978), entomologist
  • Johan Rockström (1965- ), professor in environmental science and executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
  • Olaus Rudbeckius, junior (1660-1740), botanist
  • Daniel Solander (1733-1782), botanist
  • Peter Gustaf Tengmalm (1754-1803), naturalist
  • 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
  • Svante Wold (1941-), chemometrics
  • Computer science and numerical analysis

  • Björn Engquist (born 1945), numerical analysis
  • Johan Håstad (born 1960), theoretical computer science
  • Engineering

  • Nils Alwall (1904-86), inventor and engineer
  • Arne Asplund (1903-1993), inventor and engineer
  • Karl Johan Åström (1934-), engineer, control theorist
  • 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
  • Waloddi Weibull (1887-1979), material scientist
  • Jonas Wenström (1855-93), inventor and engineer
  • Sven Wingquist (1876-1953), inventor and engineer
  • Geology and geography

  • Arne Bjerhammar (1917-2011), geodesy
  • Torsten Hägerstrand (1916-2004), geography
  • Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901), geology, Arctic explorer
  • Otto Nordenskiöld (6 December 1869-1928), geology, explorer
  • Mathematics

  • Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845-1922),
  • Arne Beurling (1905-1986), analysis
  • Lennart Carleson (born 1928), analysis
  • Per Enflo (born 1944), analysis
  • Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866-1927), analysis
  • Lars Hörmander (1931-2012), analysis
  • Helge von Koch (1870-1924), analysis
  • Sonja Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), analysis, partial differential equations
  • Anders Martin-Löf (born 1940), analysis and mathematical physics
  • Per Martin-Löf (born 1942), logic, statistics, and computer science
  • Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927), analysis
  • Medicine

  • Arvid Carlsson (1923- ), neuroscientist
  • Ulf von Euler (1905-1983), physiologist and pharmacologist
  • Allvar Gullstrand (1862-1930), medicine
  • Olaus Rudbeckius (1630-1702), medicine
  • Hugo Theorell (1903-1982), medicine
  • Physics and astronomy

  • Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995), physicist
  • Anders Jonas Ångström (1814-1874), 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
  • Per-Olov Löwdin (1916-2000), physicist
  • 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
  • Social sciences

  • Alvar Ellegård (1919-2008), linguistics, confessional beliefs
  • Gösta Berg (1903-1993), ethnologist
  • Orvar Löfgren (1943-), ethnologist
  • Statistics and data science

  • Harald Cramér (1893-1985), mathematical statistics
  • Ulf Grenander (born 1923), stochastic processes anpattern recognition
  • Karl Gustav Jöreskog (born 1935), multivariate analysis
  • Olav Kallenberg (born 1939), probability
  • Gunnar Kulldorff (1927-2015), estimation and survey sampling
  • Herman Wold (1908-1992), econometrics and time series analysis
  • References

    List of Swedish scientists Wikipedia


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