List of Swedish scientists

Table of contents

1 Chemistry 2 Engineering 3 Physics and Astronomy 4 Medicine and Botany 5 Mathematics

Chemistry

• Johann Arfvedson, (1792-1841), chemist
• Svante Arrhenius, (1859-1927), chemist and physicist
• Jöns Jacob Berzelius, (1779-1848), chemist
• Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), chemist and founder of the Nobel Prizes
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786), chemist
• Nils Gabriel Sefström, (1787-1845), chemist

• John Ericsson, (1803-1889), inventor and engineer

• Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), physicist
• Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), astronomer
• Christopher Polhem - physicist
• Janne Rydberg, (1854-1919), physicist
• Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), physicist

• Jonas C. Dryander (1748-1810), botanist
• Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), botanist
• Aristid Lindenmayer (1925-1989), biologist
• Carolus Linnaeus, (1707-1778), botanist, the father of taxonomy
• Olaus Rudbeckius, (1630-1702), medicine
• Olaus Rudbeckius, junior, (1660-1740), botanist
• Daniel Solander (1733-1782), botanist

• Sofia Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), mathematician