The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Swedish Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten i Uppsala), is the oldest of the royal academies in Sweden. The society has, by royal decree of 1906, 50 Swedish fellows and 100 foreign.
Early members included Emanuel Swedenborg and Anders Celsius.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in Stockholm 1739, and its founders (some of which were members in Uppsala) specifically wanted an academy which was different from the Uppsala academy.
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