List of Swedish scientists

• 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 (born 1963), professor in industrial biotechnology • Johan Rockström (born 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 (born 1967), chemist • Bengt Mannervik (born 1943), biochemist • 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 (born 1945), numerical analysis • Johan Håstad (born 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 (born 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 (born 1947), inventor and engineer • Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913), inventor and engineer • Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), inventor and engineer • Mats Lindroos (1961–2025), physicist • 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 (born 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 (born 1928), analysis • Per Enflo (born 1944), analysis • Sture Eskilsson (1930–2016), economist • Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866–1927), analysis • Olle Häggström (born 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 (born 1940), analysis and mathematical physics • Per Martin-Löf (born 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 • Carl David Anderson (1905 - 1991), 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 (born 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 (born 1943), ethnologist • Margareta Wahlström (born 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 (born 1935), multivariate analysis • Olav Kallenberg (born 1939), probability • Gunnar Kulldorff (1927–2015), estimation and survey sampling • Herman Wold (1908–1992), econometrics and time series analysis == See also ==