List of Swedish scientists

This is a list of Swedish scientists.

Biology and environmental science

• 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

See also

• Nobel Prize
• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences