List of Swedish scientists
This is a list of Swedish scientists.- Albertina Carlsson, zoologist
- Jonas C. Dryander, botanist
- Eva Ekeblad, agronomist
- Erik Leonard Ekman, botanist
- Elias Magnus Fries, botanist
- Pehr Kalm, botanist
- Carl Linnaeus, botanist, "father of taxonomy"
- René Malaise, entomologist
- Lisbeth Olsson, professor in industrial biotechnology
- Johan Rockström, professor in environmental science and executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Olaus Rudbeckius, junior, botanist
- Daniel Solander, botanist
- Peter Gustaf Tengmalm, naturalist
Chemistry
- Johan August Arfwedson, chemist
- Svante Arrhenius, chemist and physicist
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius, chemist
- Lars Ernster, biochemistry, member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
- Christina Lampe-Önnerud, chemist
- Alfred Nobel, chemist and founder of the Nobel Prizes
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele, chemist
- Theodor Svedberg, chemist
- Björn Engquist, numerical analysis
- Johan Håstad, theoretical computer science
Engineering
- Nils Alwall, inventor and engineer
- Arne Asplund, inventor and engineer
- Karl Johan Åström, engineer, control theorist
- Nils Bohlin, inventor and engineer
- Gustaf Dalén, inventor and engineer
- Rune Elmqvist, inventor and engineer
- John Ericsson, inventor and engineer
- Lars Magnus Ericsson, inventor and engineer
- Carl Edvard Johansson, inventor and engineer
- Johan Petter Johansson, inventor and engineer
- Håkan Lans, inventor and engineer
- Gustaf de Laval, inventor and engineer
- Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, inventor and engineer
- Carl Rickard Nyberg, inventor and engineer
- Gustaf Erik Pasch, inventor and engineer
- Baltzar von Platen, inventor and engineer
- Erik Wallenberg, inventor and engineer
- Waloddi Weibull, material scientist
- Jonas Wenström, inventor and engineer
- Sven Wingquist, inventor and engineer
Geology and geography
- Arne Bjerhammar, geodesy
- Torsten Hägerstrand, geography
- Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, geology, Arctic explorer
- Otto Nordenskiöld, geology, explorer
Mathematics
- Albert Victor Bäcklund,
- Arne Beurling, analysis
- Lennart Carleson, analysis
- Per Enflo, analysis
- Sture Eskilsson, economist
- Erik Ivar Fredholm, analysis
- Olle Häggström, mathematical statistics
- Lars Hörmander, analysis
- Helge von Koch, analysis
- Sonja Kovalevskaya, analysis, partial differential equations
- Anders Martin-Löf, analysis and mathematical physics
- Per Martin-Löf, logic, statistics, and computer science
- Gösta Mittag-Leffler, analysis
Medicine
- Arvid Carlsson, neuroscientist
- Ulf von Euler, physiologist and pharmacologist
- Björn Folkow, physiologist
- Allvar Gullstrand, medicine
- Olaus Rudbeckius, medicine
- Hugo Theorell, medicine
Physics and astronomy
- Hannes Alfvén, physicist
- Anders Jonas Ångström, physicist
- Oskar Backlund, astronomer
- Anders Celsius, astronomer
- Bengt Edlén, physicist
- V. Walfrid Ekman, physical oceanographer
- Oskar Klein, physicist
- Per-Olov Löwdin, physicist
- Knut Lundmark, astronomer
- Lise Meitner, nuclear physicist
- Christopher Polhem, physicist
- Carl-Gustaf Rossby, meteorologist
- Janne Rydberg, physicist
- Manne Siegbahn, physicist
- Kai Siegbahn, physicist
- Karin Öberg, astrochemist
Social sciences
- Pär-Erik Back, social scientist
- Alvar Ellegård, linguistics, confessional beliefs
- Orvar Löfgren, ethnologist
- Margareta Wahlström, senior UN official
- Harald Cramér, mathematical statistics
- Ulf Grenander, stochastic processes and pattern recognition
- Karl Gustav Jöreskog, multivariate analysis
- Olav Kallenberg, probability
- Gunnar Kulldorff, estimation and survey sampling
- Herman Wold, econometrics and time series analysis
