List of Swedish People - Science

Science

  • Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), physicist
  • Johann Arfvedson (1792–1841), chemist
  • Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), chemist
  • Arvid Carlsson (born 1923), neuroscientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
  • Gustav Cassel (1866–1945), economist
  • Anders Celsius (1701–1744), astronomer
  • Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), physicist
  • Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), botanist
  • Ulf von Euler (1905–1983), physiologist and pharmacologist
  • Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), political economist and economic historian
  • Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), botanist
  • Lise Meitner (1878–1968), nuclear physicist
  • Karl Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician
  • Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), physicist
  • Hans Rosling, professor of international health
  • Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), medicine
  • Johannes Rydberg (1854–1919), physicist
  • Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), chemist
  • Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), economist
  • Oskar Klein (1894–1977), physicist
  • Anders Jonas Ångström (1857–1910), physicist
  • Alfred Nobel, chemist
  • Svante Arrhenius, Nobel prize winning chemist

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