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:
“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“All you of Earth are idiots!... First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade. They begin to kill your own people a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb, many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb—split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself.”
—Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1922–1978)
“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)