# List of Swedish scientists

This is a list of Swedish scientists.

## Archaeology

* Lili Kaelas (1919–2007), Stone and Bronze Age archaeologist

## Biology and environmental science

* Albertina Carlsson (1848–1930), zoologist
* Augusta Christie-Linde (1870–1953), zoologist
* Jonas C. Dryander (1748–1810), botanist
* Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), agronomist
* Erik Leonard Ekman (1883–1931), botanist
* Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), botanist
* AnnMari Jansson (1934–2007), systems ecologist
* Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), botanist
* Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), botanist, "father of taxonomy"
* René Malaise (1892–1978), entomologist
* Lisbeth Olsson (1963–), professor in industrial biotechnology
* Johan Rockström (1965–), professor in environmental science and executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
* Olaus Rudbeckius, junior (1660–1740), botanist
* Daniel Solander (1733–1782), botanist
* Peter Gustaf Tengmalm (1754–1803), naturalist

## Chemistry

* Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841), chemist
* Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), chemist and physicist
* Karin Aurivillius (1920–1982), chemist and crystallographer
* Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848), chemist
* Lars Ernster (1920–1998), biochemistry, member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
* Christina Lampe-Önnerud (1967–), chemist
* Bengt Mannervik (1943–), biochemist
* Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), chemist and founder of the Nobel Prizes
* Gösta Pettersson (born 1937), biochemist
* Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), chemist
* Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971), chemist

## Computer science and numerical analysis

* Björn Engquist (1945–), numerical analysis
* Johan Håstad (1960–), theoretical computer science
* Laila Ohlgren (1937–2014), telecommunications

## Engineering

* Nils Alwall (1904–86), inventor and engineer
* Arne Asplund (1903–1993), inventor and engineer
* Karl Johan Åström (1934–), engineer, control theorist
* Nils Bohlin (1920–2002), inventor and engineer
* Marianne Kärrholm (1921–2018), chemical engineer and professor
* Ingrid Bruce (1940–2012), engineer and trade unionist
* Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), inventor and engineer
* Rune Elmqvist (1906–1996), inventor and engineer
* John Ericsson (1803–1889), inventor and engineer
* Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926), inventor and engineer
* Carl Edvard Johansson (1864–1943), inventor and engineer
* Johan Petter Johansson (1864–1943), inventor and engineer
* Håkan Lans (1947–), inventor and engineer
* Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913), inventor and engineer
* Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), inventor and engineer
* Carl Rickard Nyberg (1858–1939), inventor and engineer
* Gustaf Erik Pasch (1788–1862), inventor and engineer
* Baltzar von Platen (1898–1984), inventor and engineer
* Erik Wallenberg (1915–1999), inventor and engineer
* Waloddi Weibull (1887–1979), material scientist
* Jonas Wenström (1855–1893), inventor and engineer
* Sven Wingquist (1876–1953), inventor and engineer
* Lars Bern (1942–), engineer

## Geology and geography

* Arne Bjerhammar (1917–2011), geodesy
* Torsten Hägerstrand (1916–2004), geography
* Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832–1901), geology, Arctic explorer
* Otto Nordenskiöld (6 December 1869 – 1928), geology, explorer

## Mathematics

* Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845–1922)
* Arne Beurling (1905–1986), analysis
* Lennart Carleson (1928–), analysis
* Per Enflo (1944–), analysis
* Sture Eskilsson (1930–2016), economist
* Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866–1927), analysis
* Olle Häggström (1967–), mathematical statistics
* Lars Hörmander (1931–2012), analysis
* Helge von Koch (1870–1924), analysis
* Sonja Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), analysis, partial differential equations
* Anders Martin-Löf (1940–), analysis and mathematical physics
* Per Martin-Löf (1942–), logic, statistics, and computer science
* Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846–1927), analysis

## Medicine

* Arvid Carlsson (1923–2018), neuroscientist
* Ulf von Euler (1905–1983), physiologist and pharmacologist
* Björn Folkow (1921–2012), physiologist
* Allvar Gullstrand (1862–1930), medicine
* Olaus Rudbeckius (1630–1702), medicine
* Ellen Sandelin (1862–1907) practicing physician in Stockholm, who received her medical license in 1897
* Emily Spörck (1825–1904), early woman doctor of medicine, graduated as a physician in Chicago in 1873
* Stina Stenhagen (1916–1973), medical biochemist
* Hugo Theorell (1903–1982), medicine
* Charlotte Yhlen (1839–1920), early woman doctor of medicine, graduated as a physician in Pennsylvania in 1873

## Physics and astronomy

* Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), physicist
* Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874), physicist
* Oskar Backlund (1846–1916), astronomer
* Anders Celsius (1701–1744), astronomer
* Bengt Edlén (1906–1993), physicist
* Carl David Anderson (1905 - 1991), physicist
* V. Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954), physical oceanographer
* Oskar Klein (1894–1977), physicist
* Per-Olov Löwdin (1916–2000), physicist
* Knut Lundmark (1889–1958), astronomer
* Lise Meitner (1878–1968), nuclear physicist
* Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), physicist
* Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898–1957), meteorologist
* Janne Rydberg (1854–1919), physicist
* Manne Siegbahn (1886–1978), physicist
* Kai Siegbahn (1918–2007), physicist
* Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896–1966), medical physicist
* Karin Öberg (1982–), astrochemist

## Social sciences

* Pär-Erik Back (1920–1988), social scientist
* Alvar Ellegård (1919–2008), linguistics, confessional beliefs
* Phebe Fjellström (1924–2007), ethnologist
* Orvar Löfgren (1943–), ethnologist
* Margareta Wahlström (1950–), senior UN official

## Statistics and data science

* Harald Cramér (1893–1985), mathematical statistics
* Ulf Grenander (1923–2016), stochastic processes and pattern recognition
* Karl Gustav Jöreskog (1935–), multivariate analysis
* Olav Kallenberg (1939–), probability
* Gunnar Kulldorff (1927–2015), estimation and survey sampling
* Herman Wold (1908–1992), econometrics and time series analysis