Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden, founded in 1477. It ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious...
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Karl Oskar Medin
Karl Oskar Medin (August 14, 1847 – December 24, 1927) was a Swedish pediatrician. He was born at Axberg, Örebro and died in Stockholm. He is most famous for his study of poliomyelitis, an illness often known as the Heine-Medin disease, named after...
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- 1880
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Peter Englund
Peter Englund (born 4 April 1957 in Boden) is a Swedish author and historian, and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since 1 June 2009.
Englund was born into a family in Boden and studied caretaking for two years and then humanistic...
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- 1989
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Peter Englund
Peter Englund (born 4 April 1957 in Boden) is a Swedish author and historian, and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since 1 June 2009.
Englund was born into a family in Boden and studied caretaking for two years and then humanistic...
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- 1983
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Per-Olov Löwdin
Per-Olov Löwdin (October 28, 1916 – October 6, 2000) was a Swedish physicist, professor at the University of Uppsala from 1960 to 1983, and in parallel at the University of Florida until 1993.
A former graduate student under Ivar Waller, Löwdin...
Christopher Polhem
Christopher Polhammar (December 18, 1661 – August 30, 1751), better known as Christopher Polhem (help·info), which he took after his ennoblement, was a Swedish scientist, inventor and industrialist. He made significant contributions to the economic...
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (help·info), was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern...
Svante Arrhenius
Svante August Arrhenius (19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
Carl Charlier
Carl Vilhelm Ludwig Charlier (April 1, 1862, Östersund – November 5, 1934, Lund) was a Swedish astronomer.
He received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1887, later worked there and at the Stockholm Observatory and was Professor of Astronomy and...
Nils Christoffer Dunér
Nils Christoffer Dunér (Billeberga, Malmöhus län May 21, 1839 – Stockholm November 10, 1914) was a Swedish astronomer.
Dunér received his doctorate from Lund University in 1862, was observer at the observatory there from 1864 and Professor of...
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg ( pronounced (help·info); 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four...
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- Sep 13, 1867
Fredric Hasselquist
Fredrik Hasselquist (3 January 1722 – 9 February 1752) was a Swedish traveller and naturalist.
Hasselquist was born at Törnevalla, which is two kilometers east of Linghem, Östergötland. On account of the frequently expressed regrets of Carolus...
Artur Hazelius
Artur Immanuel Hazelius (30 November 1833 – 27 May 1901), Swedish teacher, scholar and folklorist, founder of the Nordic Museum and the open-air museum Skansen in Stockholm.
Hazelius was born in Stockholm, son of Johan August Hazelius, military...
Hans Blix
Hans Martin Blix (help·info) (born 28 June 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979). Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and...
Knut Wicksell
Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell (December 20, 1851 in Stockholm – May 3, 1926 in Stocksund) was a leading Swedish economist of the Stockholm school. His economic contributions would influence both the Keynesian and Austrian schools of economic thought....
Karin Boye
Karin Maria Boye (help·info) (October 26, 1900 – April 24, 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist.
Boye was born in Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden and moved with her family to Stockholm in 1909. She studied at Uppsala University from 1921 to 1926 and...
Anders Gustaf Ekeberg
Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (Stockholm, Sweden, 16 January 1767 – Uppsala, Sweden, 11 February 1813) was a Swedish chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. He was notably deaf
Ekeberg enrolled at Uppsala University 1784, graduated in 1788, was made...
Johan Wilcke
Johan Carl Wilcke (6 September 1732 – 18 April 1796) was a Swedish physicist.
Wilcke was born in Wismar, son of a clergyman who in 1739 was appointed second pastor of the German Church in Stockholm. He went to the German school in Stockholm and...
Johan Gunnar Andersson
Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960), Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and geologist, closely associated with the beginnings of Chinese archaeology in the 1920s. His Chinese name was An Tesheng (安特生).
After studies at Uppsala University, and...
Adam Kuhn
Adam Kuhn (28 November 1741–5 July 1817) was an American physician and naturalist, and one of the earliest professors of medicine in a North American university.
Kuhn was born in Germantown, son of German immigrant parents. He studied medicine under...
Knut Ångström
Knut Johan Ångström (January 12, 1857 – March 4, 1910) was a Swedish physicist. He was the son of physicist Anders Jonas Ångström and studied in Uppsala from 1877 to 1884, when he received his licentiat-degree, before going for a short time to the...
Hans Forssell
Hans Ludvig Forssell ( 14 January 1843 – 2 August 1901) was a Swedish historian and political writer.
Hans Forssell was born at Gävle, Gästrikland, where his father, the clergyman Carl Adolf Forssell, taught in the gymnasium. At the age of sixteen...
Gunnar Wennerberg
Gunnar Wennerberg (Lidköping 2 October 1817 – Läckö 24 August 1901), Swedish poet, composer and politician. His niece Sara Wennerberg-Reuter (1875–1959) was also a well-known musician; she was an organist and composer.
Wennerberg was the son of the...
Anders Borg
Anders Erik Borg (born 11 January 1968) is a Swedish economist and politician, who serves as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government. He is a member of the Moderate Party.
Borg was born in Stockholm but grew up in Norrköping, Östergötland...
Hjalmar Branting
Karl Hjalmar Branting (help·info) (23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (1907–1925), and Prime Minister during three separate periods (1920, 1921–1923, and 1924–1925)...
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Björn Engquist
Björn Engquist (also Bjorn Engquist; born 2 June 1945 in Stockholm) has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians.
He received his Ph.D. in numerical...
Nils Edén
Nils Edén (25 August 1871–16 June 1945) was a Swedish historian and liberal politician, Prime Minister of Sweden 1917–1920, and along with Hjalmar Branting acknowledged as co-architect of Sweden's transition from quasi-absolute monarchy to a...
Hugo Alfvén
Hugo Emil Alfvén (help·info) (May 1, 1872 – May 8, 1960) was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.
Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument,...
Tage Danielsson
Tage Danielsson (first name pronounced "TAH-GEH") (5 February 1928 – 13 October 1985) was a Swedish author, actor, poet and film director. He is best known for his collaboration with Hans Alfredson in the comedy-duo Hasseåtage.
After graduation from...
Carl Michael Bellman
Carl Michael Bellman (help·info) (4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) was a Swedish poet and composer. Bellman is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a very important influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian...
Daniel Solander
Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.
Solander was born in...
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (19 January 1790, Åsbo, Östergötland – 21 July 1855) was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy.
Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at the University of Uppsala, he represents one of the most...
Erik Jarvik
Anders Erik Vilhelm Jarvik (30 November 1907 – January 11, 1998) was a Swedish palaeozoologist who worked extensively on the sarcopterygian (or lobe-finned) fish Eusthenopteron. In a career that spanned some 60 years, Jarvik produced some of the...
Per Jacobsson
Per Jacobsson (February 5, 1894 – May 5, 1963) was managing director of the International Monetary Fund from November 21, 1956 until his death in 1963. Born in Tanum, Bohuslän, Jacobsson received degrees in law and economics from the Uppsala...
Thomas Hakon Grönwall
Thomas Hakon Grönwall or Thomas Hakon Gronwall (January 16, 1877, Dylta bruk, Sweden - May 9, 1932, New York, USA) was a Swedish mathematician. He studied at the University College of Stockholm and Uppsala University and completed his Ph.D. at...
Gustaf de Laval
Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval (May 9, 1845 - February 2, 1913) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and, more importantly, dairy machinery.
De Laval was born at Orsa in Dalarna. He...
Lars Stigzelius
Lars Stigzelius (October 27, 1598 – August 31, 1676) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1670 to his death.
He was the son of a priest and was a student at the Uppsala University until his Master of Arts in 1625.
After undertaking...
Johan Håstad
Johan Torkel Håstad (born 19 November 1960) is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theory. He was the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1994 and 2011 and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in...
Petter
Petter Alexis Askergren, (born 25 May 1974), who simply uses his given name Petter as a stage name, is a rap artist from Stockholm, Sweden, rapping in Swedish. He debuted in 1998 with the album Mitt sjätte sinne (My Sixth Sense), which became a...
Erik Johan Stagnelius
Erik Johan Stagnelius was born October 14, 1793 in Gärdslösa, on the island Öland, Sweden, and died on April 3, 1823 in Stockholm. He was a Romantic poet and playwright.
1810 to 1840 was a blossoming time in Swedish poetry, and there were several...
Johan Peter Falck
Johann Peter Falck (1732–1774) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Falck was born in Kockstorp, Västergötland. He studied at the University of Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus.
Falck travelled to St Petersburg, and participated in...
Lars Gustafsson
Lars Gustafsson (born May 17, 1936) is a Swedish poet, novelist and scholar. He was born in Västerås, completed his secondary education at the Västerås gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University; he received his Licentiate degree in 1960 and was...
Jonas Lidströmer
Jonas Lidströmer (1755–1808) was a Swedish inventor and officer in the Swedish navy. Lidströmer was born in 1755 at Lagfors bruk, Medelpad, and died 1808 in Stockholm. Colonel-mecanicus, Head of the mechanical state of the Royal Swedish-Finnish Navy...
Oscar Montelius
Oscar Montelius (9 September 1843 Stockholm – 4 November 1921) was a Swedish archaeologist who refined the concept of seriation, a relative chronological dating method. Seriation is the procedure of working out a chronology by arranging material...
Ivar Otto Bendixson
Ivar Otto Bendixson (August 1, 1861 – 1935) was a Swedish mathematician.
Bendixson was born August 1, 1861 in Djurgårdsbrunn, Stockholm Sweden to a middle class family. His father Vilhelm Emanuel Bendixson was a merchant, and his mother was Tony...
Torbern Bergman
Torbern Olaf Bergman (20 March 1735 Katharinberg, Sweden, – 8 July 1784 Medevi, Sweden) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published....
Karl Gustav Cassel
Karl Gustav Cassel (20 October 1866 – 14 January 1945) was a Swedish economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University.
Cassel's perspective on economic reality, and especially on the role of interest, was rooted in British neoclassicism...
Johan Ihre
Johan Ihre (3 March 1707 – 1 December 1780) was a Swedish philologist and historical linguist.
Ihre was born in Lund, son of the theologian Thomas Ihre and his spouse Brita Steuchia. After his father's death in 1720, Johan Ihre was raised in the...
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (Sunne parish, Jämtlands län 11 September 1717 (OS) – Stockholm 13 December 1783), Swedish astronomer and demographer.
Wargentin was the son of the vicar of Sunne Wilhelm Wargentin (1670-1735) and his spouse Christina Aroselia...
Gustaf Fröding
Gustaf Fröding (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡɵsˌtav ˈfrøːˌdɪŋ] ( listen); August 22, 1860 - February 8, 1911) was a Swedish poet and writer, born in Alster outside Karlstad in Värmland. The family moved to Kristinehamn in the year 1867. He later...
Gerhard Lindblom
Karl Gerhard Lindblom (1887-1969) was an ethnographer from Sweden who worked in East Africa in the 1910s. He was the principal author of materials on the Akamba peoples.
Sven Hedin
Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia he discovered...
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (born 30 May 1908 in Norrköping, Sweden; died 2 April 1995 in Djursholm, Sweden) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)....
Lars Fredrik Nilson
Lars Fredrik Nilson (27 May 1840 – 14 May 1899) was a Swedish chemist who discovered scandium in 1879.
Nilson was born in Skönberga parish in Östergötland, Sweden. His father, Nikolaus, was a farmer. The family moved to Gotland when Lars Fredrik was...
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (February 7, 1871 – November 20, 1927) was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.
Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in...
Georg Stiernhielm
Georg Stiernhielm (August 7, 1598 – April 22, 1672) was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet.
Stiernhielm was born in a middle-class family in the village Svartskär in Vika parish in Dalarna. The surname Stiernhielm, literally "Star Helmet",...
Salam Karam
Salam Kamel Karam (Arabic: سلام كامل كرم) (born 9 March 1975) is a Swedish journalist.
Salam Karam was born in Baghdad in Iraq. He speaks fluent Arabic as well as Swedish. He has a bachelor's degree in Middle-Eastern studies from Uppsala University...
Stane Dolanc
Stane Dolanc (November 16, 1925 – December 13, 1999) was a Yugoslav and Slovenian communist politician, one of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in Yugoslav federal politics in the...
Lars Levi Læstadius
Lars Levi Læstadius (January 10, 1800 – February 21, 1861) was a Swedish Lutheran pastor of partly Sami ancestry. From the mid 1840s and onward he became the leader of the Laestadian movement. He was also an author, teetotaller and botanist....
Gustaf Nils Algernon Stierneld
Baron Gustaf Nils Algernon Adolf Stierneld (July 12, 1791 - November 14, 1868) was a Swedish politician. He served twice as the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1838 to 1842, and from 1848 to 1856. He was born, and died, in Stockholm.
He...
Carl-Henric Svanberg
Carl-Henric Svanberg, born on May 29 1952 in Porjus, Sweden, is a businessman and current Chairman of BP and Volvo.
Svanberg holds a Master's degree in Applied Physics from the Linköping Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Business...
