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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Famous quotes containing the word science:

    “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
    —Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

    “He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars:
    General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer,
    For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy morning and heard the cry of an owl in a neighboring wood as from a nature behind the common, unexplored by science or by literature.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)