This is a list of Swedish scientists:

Contents

1 Chemistry 2 Engineering 3 Physics and Astronomy 4 Medicine and Botany 5 Mathematics 6 Others 7 See also

Chemistry

• Johan August Arfwedson, (1792-1841), chemist
• Svante Arrhenius, (1859-1927), chemist and physicist
• Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779-1848), chemist
• 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

Engineering

• Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), inventor and engineer
• John Ericsson, (1803-1889), inventor and engineer
• Gustaf de Laval (1845-1913), inventor and engineer

Physics and Astronomy

• Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), physicist
• Oskar Backlund (1846-1916), astronomer
• Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), astronomer
• Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), physicist
• Janne Rydberg, (1854-1919), physicist
• Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), physicist

Medicine and Botany

• Arvid Carlsson, (1923- ), neuroscientist
• Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), 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
• 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), mathematician
• Lars Hörmander, (born 1931), mathematician
• Helge von Koch, (1870-1924), mathematician
• Sofia Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), mathematician
• Gösta Mittag-Leffler, (1846-1927), mathematician

Others

• Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901), geologist, arctic explorer

See also

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Nobel Prize

Subcategories

There are 9 subcategories to this category.

Swedish astronomers B Swedish biologists Swedish botanists

C Swedish computer scientists G Swedish geologists M Swedish mathematicians Swedish mineralogists

P Swedish paleontologists S Swedish chemists

Articles in category "Swedish scientists"

There are 51 articles in this category.

Hannes Alfvén Leif Erland Andersson Adolf Appellöf Johan August Arfwedson Svante Arrhenius Arne Asplund B Oskar Backlund Torbern Bergman Jöns Jakob Berzelius C Arvid Carlsson Carl Charlier Carl Clerck E V. Walfrid Ekman Ulf von Euler F Gunnar Fant G Allvar Gullstrand Gunnar Svedberg

H Fredric Hasselquist Lars Hörmander K Sofia Kovalevskaya L Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist Abraham Langlet Lars Leksell Göran Liljestrand Erik Lindahl Bertil Lindblad M Karl Oskar Medin P Christopher Polhem R Anders Retzius Gustaf Retzius Lars Roberg Carl-Gustaf Rossby Olaus Rudbeckius Olaus Rudbeckius, junior Johannes Rydberg

S Bengt I. Samuelsson Anders Sandberg Carl Wilhelm Scheele Kai Siegbahn Manne Siegbahn Rolf Maximilian Sievert Boris Smeds Anders Sparrman Theodor Svedberg Emanuel Swedenborg T Hugo Theorell Arne Tiselius W Sten Wahlund Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin Waloddi Weibull Torsten Wiesel