page_title: List of Uppsala University people
section_title: Mathematics, physics and astronomy
hierarchical_section_title: List of Uppsala University people / Natural sciences and medicine / Mathematics, physics and astronomy
caption_attribution_description: English: Headshot of Anders Celsius
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people affiliated with Uppsala University.
context_section_description: Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), mechanical engineer and inventor
  Samuel Klingenstierna (1698–1765), mathematician and physicist
  Anders Celsius (1701–1744), physicist and astronomer; inventor of the centigrade scale, the predecessor of the Celsius scale
  Nils Wallerius (1706-1764), physicist, philosopher and theologian, made important discoveries in the field of hydrology
  Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (1717–1783), astronomer, first head of the Stockholm Observatory
  Johan Carl Wilcke (1732–1796), physicist
  Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874), physicist, eponym of the unit ångström
  Herman Schultz (1823-1890), astronomer
  Tobias Robert Thalén (1827–1905), astronomer and physicist, awarded Rumford Medal 1884 "for his spectroscopic researches"
  Nils Christoffer Dunér (1839–1914), astronomer; professor of astronomy in Uppsala from 1888; awarded the Rumford Medal in 1892
  Oskar Backlund (1846–1916), astronomer
  Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846–1927), mathematician; professor and Rector at Stockholm University College; founder of the journal Acta mathematica (1882–); founder of the Mittag-Leffler Institute (Ph.D. 1872)
  Knut Ångström (1857–1910), physicist
  Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861–1935), mathematician, professor and Rector at Stockholm University College (M.A. 1881, Ph.D. 1890)
  Carl Charlier (1862–1934), astronomer, awarded the James Craig Watson Medal in 1924 and the Bruce Medal in 1933; professor and head of the Astronomical Observatory at Lund University
  Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866–1927), mathematician who established the modern theory of integral equations
  Helge von Koch (1870–1924), mathematician
  Thomas Hakon Grönwall (1877–1932), mathematician, taught at Princeton and Columbia (studied in Uppsala and Stockholm, awarded Ph.D. by Uppsala University in 1898)
  David Enskog (1884–1947), mathematician, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1917)
  Manne Siegbahn (1886–1978), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics 1924
  Fritz Carlson (1888–1952), mathematician, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology and later at the Stockholm University College (Ph.D. 1914)
  Torsten Carleman (1892–1949), mathematician, Professor and Director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm (Ph.D. 1917)
  Gunnar Malmquist (1893–1982), astronomer, professor in Uppsala 1939–1959
  Bertil Lindblad (1895–1965), astronomer; professor and head of the Stockholm Observatory; awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1948 and the Bruce Medal 1954
  Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896–1966), physicist, professor at Stockholm University, eponym of the unit sievert (M.A. 1919)
  Erik Björkdal (1899-1952), meteorologist who studied at the Bergen School of Meteorology and was active in the World Meteorological Organization.
  Åke Wallenquist (1904–1994), astronomer
  Arne Beurling (1905–1986), mathematician
  Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics 1970
  Kai Siegbahn (1918–2007), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics 1981; son of Manne Siegbahn
  Lennart Carleson (born 1928), mathematician (Ph.D. 1950); professor at UU; later (after retirement) professor at UCLA; awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1992 and the Abel Prize in 2006
  Björn Engquist (born 1945), mathematician (Ph.D. 1975), professor at the Royal Institute of Technology and Princeton University
  Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (born 1944), astronomer
  Johan Håstad (born 1960), mathematician and computer scientist (M.Sc. 1984)
caption: Anders Celsius
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