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Notable People Connected To Lund University

The following is a select list of some of the most notable people who have been affiliated with Lund University as students or academics, please refer to the main article for more information.

  • Anders Jahan Retzius (1742–1821), naturalist.
  • Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), mycologist.
  • Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846), poet, bishop of Växjö.
  • Peter Estenberg (1686–1740), Greek Scholar, Professor, and advisor to King Stanislaw (Stanisław Leszczyński) of Poland in the early 18th century.
  • Tuve Hasselquist (1816–1891), Swedish American Lutheran minister and church leader
  • Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845–1912), mathematician and physicist (Bäcklund transform).
  • Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), economist.
  • Johannes Rydberg (1854–1919), physicist (Rydberg formula, Rydberg constant).
  • V. Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954), oceanographer (Ekman spiral, Ekman number).
  • Marcel Riesz (1886–1969), mathematician (Riesz function, Riesz theorems, Riesz mean, Riesz potential).
  • Ivar Wickman 1872-1914), neurologist, polio expert
  • Manne Siegbahn (1886–1978), Nobel Prize in Physics 1924. Professor at Uppsala University.
  • Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (1894–1954), author, The Long Ships.
  • Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979), Nobel Prize in Economics 1977.
  • Tage Erlander (1901–1985), Prime Minister of Sweden, 1946-1969.
  • Rune Elmqvist (1906–1996), developer of the first implantable pacemaker.
  • Torsten Hägerstrand (1916–2004), cultural geographer.
  • Sune Bergström (1916–2004), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1982.
  • Carl Hellmuth Hertz (1920–1990) pioneered medical ultrasonography (with Inge Edler).
  • sv:Sten Broman (1902–1983) Musician, music critic, TV host, university active- founder of Uarda-akademien etc.
  • Arvid Carlsson (1923-), Nobel Prize in Medicine 2000 (Professor at Göteborgs university).
  • Hans Alfredson (1931-), writer, entertainer and film director, former head of Skansen.
  • Lars Hörmander (1931-), mathematician awarded the Fields medal in 1962.
  • Ingvar Carlsson (1934-), Prime Minister of Sweden 1986-91, 1994-96.
  • Michael Treschow (1943-), Former chairman of Ericsson and currently chairman of Unilever.
  • Karl Johan Åström (1934-), (Professor Emeritus), IEEE Fellow, IEEE Medal of Honor for contributions to Control Theory
  • Etzel Cardeña (1957-), Thorsen Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP)
  • Duncan Steel (1955-), world-renowned authority on space science
  • Peter Gärdenfors (1949-), philosopher and cognitive scientist
  • Mikael Dolsten M.D., Ph.D. (1959-), President of Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Adjunct Professor of Immunology at the Medical Faculty in Lund
  • Lars Pålsson Syll, Professor of economics
  • Judith Wallerstein (1921-2012), Psychologist and researcher at University of California at Berkeley. (Ph.D 1978)
  • Bo Lundgren, Former leader of the Swedish Moderate Party

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