This is a list of Swedish scientists:

Chemistry

• Johan August Arfwedson, (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
• Theodor Svedberg, (1884-1971), chemist

Engineering

• Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), inventor and engineer
• John Ericsson, (1803-1889), inventor and engineer
• Gustaf de Laval (1845-1913), inventor and engineer

Physics and Astronomy

• Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), physicist
• Oskar Backlund (1846-1916), astronomer
• Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), astronomer
• Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), physicist
• Janne Rydberg, (1854-1919), physicist
• Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), physicist

Medicine and Botany

• Arvid Carlsson, (1923- ), neuroscientist
• Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), botanist
• Elias Magnus Fries, (1794-1878), botanist
• Allvar Gullstrand, (1862-1930), medicine
• Pehr Kalm, (1716-1779), botanist
• 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
• Hugo Theorell (1903-1982), medicine
• Peter Gustaf Tengmalm (1754-1803), naturalist

Mathematics

• Arne Beurling, (1905-1986), mathematician
• Lars Hörmander, (born 1931), mathematician
• Helge von Koch, (1870-1924), mathematician
• Sofia Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), mathematician
• Gösta Mittag-Leffler, (1846-1927), mathematician

Others

• Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901), geologist, arctic explorer

See also

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Nobel Prize