List of Swedish scientists

This is a list of Swedish scientists.

Archaeology

 * Lili Kaelas (1919–2007), Stone and Bronze Age archaeologist

Biology and environmental science

 * Albertina Carlsson (1848–1930), zoologist
 * Augusta Christie-Linde (1870–1953), zoologist
 * Jonas C. Dryander (1748–1810), botanist
 * Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), agronomist
 * Erik Leonard Ekman (1883–1931), botanist
 * Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), botanist
 * AnnMari Jansson (1934–2007), systems ecologist
 * Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), botanist
 * Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), botanist, "father of taxonomy"
 * René Malaise (1892–1978), entomologist
 * Lisbeth Olsson (1963–), professor in industrial biotechnology
 * Johan Rockström (1965–), professor in environmental science and executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
 * Olaus Rudbeckius, junior (1660–1740), botanist
 * Daniel Solander (1733–1782), botanist
 * Peter Gustaf Tengmalm (1754–1803), naturalist

Chemistry

 * Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841), chemist
 * Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), chemist and physicist
 * Karin Aurivillius (1920–1982), chemist and crystallographer
 * Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848), chemist
 * Lars Ernster (1920–1998), biochemistry, member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
 * Christina Lampe-Önnerud (1967–), chemist
 * Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), chemist and founder of the Nobel Prizes
 * Gösta Pettersson (born 1937), biochemist
 * Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), chemist
 * Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971), chemist

Computer science and numerical analysis

 * Björn Engquist (1945–), numerical analysis
 * Johan Håstad (1960–), theoretical computer science
 * Laila Ohlgren (1937–2014), telecommunications

Engineering

 * Nils Alwall (1904–86), inventor and engineer
 * Arne Asplund (1903–1993), inventor and engineer
 * Karl Johan Åström (1934–), engineer, control theorist
 * Nils Bohlin (1920–2002), inventor and engineer
 * Marianne Kärrholm (1921–2018), chemical engineer and professor
 * Ingrid Bruce (1940–2012), engineer and trade unionist
 * Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), inventor and engineer
 * Rune Elmqvist (1906–1996), inventor and engineer
 * John Ericsson (1803–1889), inventor and engineer
 * Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926), inventor and engineer
 * Carl Edvard Johansson (1864–1943), inventor and engineer
 * Johan Petter Johansson (1864–1943), inventor and engineer
 * Håkan Lans (1947–), inventor and engineer
 * Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913), inventor and engineer
 * Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), inventor and engineer
 * Carl Rickard Nyberg (1858–1939), inventor and engineer
 * Gustaf Erik Pasch (1788–1862), inventor and engineer
 * Baltzar von Platen (1898–1984), inventor and engineer
 * Erik Wallenberg (1915–1999), inventor and engineer
 * Waloddi Weibull (1887–1979), material scientist
 * Jonas Wenström (1855–1893), inventor and engineer
 * Sven Wingquist (1876–1953), inventor and engineer
 * Lars Bern (1942–), engineer

Geology and geography

 * Arne Bjerhammar (1917–2011), geodesy
 * Torsten Hägerstrand (1916–2004), geography
 * Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832–1901), geology, Arctic explorer
 * Otto Nordenskiöld (6 December 1869 – 1928), geology, explorer

Mathematics

 * Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845–1922)
 * Arne Beurling (1905–1986), analysis
 * Lennart Carleson (1928–), analysis
 * Per Enflo (1944–), analysis
 * Sture Eskilsson (1930–2016), economist
 * Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866–1927), analysis
 * Olle Häggström (1967–), mathematical statistics
 * Lars Hörmander (1931–2012), analysis
 * Helge von Koch (1870–1924), analysis
 * Sonja Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), analysis, partial differential equations
 * Anders Martin-Löf (1940–), analysis and mathematical physics
 * Per Martin-Löf (1942–), logic, statistics, and computer science
 * Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846–1927), analysis

Medicine

 * Arvid Carlsson (1923–2018), neuroscientist
 * Ulf von Euler (1905–1983), physiologist and pharmacologist
 * Björn Folkow (1921–2012), physiologist
 * Allvar Gullstrand (1862–1930), medicine
 * Olaus Rudbeckius (1630–1702), medicine
 * Ellen Sandelin (1862–1907) practicing physician in Stockholm, who received her medical license in 1897
 * Emily Spörck (1825–1904), early woman doctor of medicine, graduated as a physician in Chicago in 1873
 * Stina Stenhagen (1916–1973), medical biochemist
 * Hugo Theorell (1903–1982), medicine
 * Charlotte Yhlen (1839–1920), early woman doctor of medicine, graduated as a physician in Pennsylvania in 1873

Physics and astronomy

 * Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), physicist
 * Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874), physicist
 * Oskar Backlund (1846–1916), astronomer
 * Anders Celsius (1701–1744), astronomer
 * Bengt Edlén (1906–1993), physicist
 * V. Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954), physical oceanographer
 * Oskar Klein (1894–1977), physicist
 * Per-Olov Löwdin (1916–2000), physicist
 * Knut Lundmark (1889–1958), astronomer
 * Lise Meitner (1878–1968), nuclear physicist
 * Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), physicist
 * Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898–1957), meteorologist
 * Janne Rydberg (1854–1919), physicist
 * Manne Siegbahn (1886–1978), physicist
 * Kai Siegbahn (1918–2007), physicist
 * Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896–1966), medical physicist
 * Karin Öberg (1982–), astrochemist

Social sciences

 * Pär-Erik Back (1920–1988), social scientist
 * Alvar Ellegård (1919–2008), linguistics, confessional beliefs
 * Phebe Fjellström (1924–2007), ethnologist
 * Orvar Löfgren (1943–), ethnologist
 * Margareta Wahlström (1950–), senior UN official

Statistics and data science

 * Harald Cramér (1893–1985), mathematical statistics
 * Ulf Grenander (1923–2016), stochastic processes and pattern recognition
 * Karl Gustav Jöreskog (1935–), multivariate analysis
 * Olav Kallenberg (1939–), probability
 * Gunnar Kulldorff (1927–2015), estimation and survey sampling
 * Herman Wold (1908–1992), econometrics and time series analysis