List of Swedish scientists
This is a list of Swedish scientists:
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2 Engineering 3 Physics and Astronomy 4 Medicine and Botany 5 Mathematics |
Chemistry
- Johann Arfvedson, (1792-1841), chemist
- Svante Arrhenius, (1859-1927), chemist and physicist
- Jöns Jacob 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
Engineering
- John Ericsson, (1803-1889), inventor and engineer
Physics and Astronomy
- Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), physicist
- Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), astronomer
- Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), physicist
- Janne Rydberg, (1854-1919), physicist
- Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), physicist
Medicine and Botany
- Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), botanist
- Elias Magnus Fries, (1794-1878), botanist
- Allvar Gullstrand, (1862-1930), medicine
- Aristid Lindenmayer (1925-1989), biologist
- 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
Mathematics
- Arne Beurling, (1905-1986), mathematician
- Sofia Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), mathematician