Scientists
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors – mathematician, Fields Medalist 1936 (1907 – 1996)
- Väinö Auer – explorer, geologist, geographer (1895 – 1981)
- Anders Chydenius – classical liberal (1729 – 1803)
- Kari Enqvist – cosmologist
- Johan Gadolin – chemist (1760 – 1852)
- Ragnar Granit – medicine, Nobelist (1900 – 1991)
- Hilma Granqvist – anthropologist (1890 – 1972)
- Ilkka Hanski – Crafoord Prize winning ecologist
- Pehr Kalm – botanist (1716 – 1779)
- Teuvo Kohonen – neurocomputing pioneer
- Jussi V. Koivisto – economist
- Anders Johan Lexell – mathematician, astronomer (1740 – 1784)
- Ernst Lindelöf – mathematician, researcher of function theory and topology (1870 – 1946)
- Olli Lounasmaa – physicist, researcher of low-temperature physics (1930 – 2002)
- Hjalmar Mellin – mathematician (1854 – 1933)
- Risto Näätänen – psychologist and neuroscientist (born 1939)
- Rolf Nevanlinna – mathematician (1895 – 1980)
- Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld – mineralogist (1792 – 1866)
- Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld polar explorer, political refugee in Sweden (1832–1901)
- Gunnar Nordström theoretical physicist (1881–1923)
- Liisi Oterma – astronomer (1915 – 2001)
- Leena Palotie – gene scientist
- Simo Parpola – orientalist, assyriologist
- Helena Ranta – pathologist, forensic dentist
- Eric Tigerstedt – inventor, Thomas Edison of Finland (1887 – 1925)
- Kari S. Tikka – justice and finance professor (1944 – 2006)
- Esko Valtaoja – astronomer
- Tatu Vanhanen – political scientist (born 1929)
- Artturi Ilmari Virtanen – chemist, Nobelist (1895 – 1973)
- Vilho Väisälä – mathematician, inventor of meteorological instruments (1889 – 1969)
- Yrjö Väisälä – astronomer, meteorologist (1891 – 1971)
- Edvard Westermarck – philosopher, sociologist (1862 – 1939)
- Arvo Ylppö – pediatrician (1887 – 1992)
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Famous quotes containing the word scientists:
“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
—Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson)
“Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can’t tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)