List of Swedish scientists

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Table of contents

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

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
• Theodor Svedberg, (1884-1971), chemist

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

• 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

• Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), botanist
• Elias Magnus Fries, (1794-1878), botanist
• Allvar Gullstrand, (1862-1930), medicine
• Pehr Kalm, (1716-1779), botanist
• 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
• Hugo Theorell (1903-1982), medicine
• Peter Gustaf Tengmalm (1754-1803), naturalist

• Arne Beurling, (1905-1986), mathematician
• Lars Hörmander, (born 1931), mathematician
• Sofia Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), mathematician

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

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• List of physicists
• List of mathematicians
• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences