Science
- Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), physicist
- Johann Arfvedson (1792–1841), chemist
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), chemist
- Arvid Carlsson (born 1923), neuroscientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
- Gustav Cassel (1866–1945), economist
- Anders Celsius (1701–1744), astronomer
- Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), physicist
- Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), botanist
- Ulf von Euler (1905–1983), physiologist and pharmacologist
- Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), political economist and economic historian
- Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), botanist
- Lise Meitner (1878–1968), nuclear physicist
- Karl Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician
- Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), physicist
- Hans Rosling, professor of international health
- Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), medicine
- Johannes Rydberg (1854–1919), physicist
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), chemist
- Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), economist
- Oskar Klein (1894–1977), physicist
- Anders Jonas Ångström (1857–1910), physicist
- Alfred Nobel, chemist
- Svante Arrhenius, Nobel prize winning chemist
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)