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:
“Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)