List of Swedish scientists

Archaeology

• Lili Kaelas, Stone and Bronze Age archaeologist

  Biology and environmental science

• Albertina Carlsson, zoologist
• Augusta Christie-Linde, zoologist
• Jonas C. Dryander, botanist
• Eva Ekeblad, agronomist
• Erik Leonard Ekman, botanist
• Elias Magnus Fries, botanist
• AnnMari Jansson, systems ecologist
• Pehr Kalm, botanist
• Carl Linnaeus, botanist, "father of taxonomy"
• René Malaise, entomologist
• Lisbeth Olsson, professor in industrial biotechnology
• Johan Rockström, professor in environmental science and executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
• Olaus Rudbeckius, junior, botanist
• Daniel Solander, botanist
• Peter Gustaf Tengmalm, naturalist

  Chemistry

• Johan August Arfwedson, chemist
• Svante Arrhenius, chemist and physicist
• Karin Aurivillius, chemist and crystallographer
• Jöns Jacob Berzelius, chemist
• Lars Ernster, biochemistry, member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation
• Christina Lampe-Önnerud, chemist
• Bengt Mannervik, biochemist
• Alfred Nobel, chemist and founder of the Nobel Prizes
• Gösta Pettersson, biochemist
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele, chemist
• Theodor Svedberg, chemist

  Computer science and numerical analysis

• Björn Engquist, numerical analysis
• Johan Håstad, theoretical computer science
• Laila Ohlgren, telecommunications

  Engineering

• Nils Alwall, inventor and engineer
• Arne Asplund, inventor and engineer
• Karl Johan Åström, engineer, control theorist
• Nils Bohlin, inventor and engineer
• Marianne Kärrholm, chemical engineer and professor
• Ingrid Bruce, engineer and trade unionist
• Gustaf Dalén, inventor and engineer
• Rune Elmqvist, inventor and engineer
• John Ericsson, inventor and engineer
• Lars Magnus Ericsson, inventor and engineer
• Carl Edvard Johansson, inventor and engineer
• Johan Petter Johansson, inventor and engineer
• Håkan Lans, inventor and engineer
• Gustaf de Laval, inventor and engineer
• Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, inventor and engineer
• Carl Rickard Nyberg, inventor and engineer
• Gustaf Erik Pasch, inventor and engineer
• Baltzar von Platen, inventor and engineer
• Erik Wallenberg, inventor and engineer
• Waloddi Weibull, material scientist
• Jonas Wenström, inventor and engineer
• Sven Wingquist, inventor and engineer
• Lars Bern, engineer

  Geology and geography

• Arne Bjerhammar, geodesy
• Torsten Hägerstrand, geography
• Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, geology, Arctic explorer
• Otto Nordenskiöld, geology, explorer

  Mathematics

• Albert Victor Bäcklund
• Arne Beurling, analysis
• Lennart Carleson, analysis
• Per Enflo, analysis
• Sture Eskilsson, economist
• Erik Ivar Fredholm, analysis
• Olle Häggström, mathematical statistics
• Lars Hörmander, analysis
• Helge von Koch, analysis
• Sonja Kovalevskaya, analysis, partial differential equations
• Anders Martin-Löf, analysis and mathematical physics
• Per Martin-Löf, logic, statistics, and computer science
• Gösta Mittag-Leffler, analysis

  Medicine

• Arvid Carlsson, neuroscientist
• Ulf von Euler, physiologist and pharmacologist
• Björn Folkow, physiologist
• Allvar Gullstrand, medicine
• Olaus Rudbeckius, medicine
• Ellen Sandelin practicing physician in Stockholm, who received her medical license in 1897
• Emily Spörck, early woman doctor of medicine, graduated as a physician in Chicago in 1873
• Stina Stenhagen, medical biochemist
• Hugo Theorell, medicine
• Charlotte Yhlen, early woman doctor of medicine, graduated as a physician in Pennsylvania in 1873

  Physics and astronomy

• Hannes Alfvén, physicist
• Anders Jonas Ångström, physicist
• Oskar Backlund, astronomer
• Anders Celsius, astronomer
• Bengt Edlén, physicist
• Carl David Anderson, physicist
• V. Walfrid Ekman, physical oceanographer
• Oskar Klein, physicist
• Per-Olov Löwdin, physicist
• Knut Lundmark, astronomer
• Lise Meitner, nuclear physicist
• Christopher Polhem, physicist
• Carl-Gustaf Rossby, meteorologist
• Janne Rydberg, physicist
• Manne Siegbahn, physicist
• Kai Siegbahn, physicist
• Rolf Maximilian Sievert, medical physicist
• Karin Öberg, astrochemist

  Social sciences

• Pär-Erik Back, social scientist
• Alvar Ellegård, linguistics, confessional beliefs
• Phebe Fjellström, ethnologist
• Orvar Löfgren, ethnologist
• Margareta Wahlström, senior UN official

  Statistics and data science

• Harald Cramér, mathematical statistics
• Ulf Grenander, stochastic processes and pattern recognition
• Karl Gustav Jöreskog, multivariate analysis
• Olav Kallenberg, probability
• Gunnar Kulldorff, estimation and survey sampling
• Herman Wold, econometrics and time series analysis