Category:Swedish scientists
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This is a list of Swedish scientists:
 This article is part of the List of Swedes series |
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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
- Arne Asplund (1903-1993), inventor and engineer
- 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