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List Of Uppsala University PeopleThis is a list of notable people affiliated with Uppsala University. For a list of chancellors of the university, see Chancellor of Uppsala University. Nobel laureates affiliated with Uppsala University - Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1903
- Allvar Gullstrand (1862-1930), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1911
- Robert Brny (1876-1936), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1914
- Theodor (The) Svedberg (1884-1971), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1926
- Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), Nobel Laureate in Physics 1924
- Arne Tiselius (1902-1971), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1948.
- Hannes Alfvn (1908-1995), Nobel Laureate in Physics 1970
- Kai Siegbahn (1918-), Nobel Laureate in Physics 1981.
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931), Nobel laureate in literature 1931 (posthumously)
- Pr Lagerkvist (1891-1974), Nobel laureate in literature 1951.
- Hjalmar Branting (1860-1925), Nobel Peace Laureate in 1921.
- Nathan Sderblom (1866-1931), Nobel peace laureate in 1931
- Alva Myrdal (1902-1986), Nobel Peace Laureate in 1982
- Dag Hammarskjld (1905-1961), Nobel Peace Laureate in 1961 (posthumously).
Government, politics and civil service Royalty - King Charles X of Sweden, matriculated 1638.
- King Charles XV of Sweden, student in Uppsala 1843 and 1845 (spring semester 1844 in Christiania)
- Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uplandia (1827-1852), song composer, matriculated 1844 and studied several semesters in Uppsala
- King Oscar II of Sweden
- Prince Carl, Duke of Westrogothia (1861-), student 1881-1882
- Prince Eugn, Duke of Nericia, artist and art collector
- King Gustavus VI Adolphus of Sweden, also known as an accomplished archaeologist and connoisseur of East Asian art
- King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
International work Non-Swedes Religion As Uppsala University has one of only two faculties of Theology in Sweden, and the older one of the two (the other one is in Lund), most Swedish churchmen of note have actually graduated from the university. Natural sciences and medicine Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy - Christopher Polhem (1661-1751), mechanical engineer and inventor
- Samuel Klingenstierna (1698-1765), mathematician and physicist
- Anders Celsius (1701-1744), physicist and astronomer, inventor of the centigrade scale
- Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (1717-1783), astronomer, first head of the Stockholm Observatory
- Anders Jonas ngstrm (1814-1874), physicist, eponym of the unit ngstrm
- Oskar Backlund (1846-1916), astronomer
- Gsta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927), mathematician, Professor and Rector at Stockholm University College, founder of the journal Acta mathematica (1882-) and the Mittag-Leffler Institute (Ph.D. 1872)
- Knut ngstrm (1857-1910), physicist
- Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861-1935), mathematician, Professor and Rector at Stockholm University College (M.A. 1881, Ph.D. 1890)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Bendixson.html
- Carl Charlier (1862-1934), astronomer, awarded the James Craig Watson Medal in 1924 and the Bruce Medal in 1933. Professor and head of the Astronomical Observatory at Lund University.
- Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866-1927), mathematician who established the modern theory of integral equations
- Helge von Koch (1870-1924), mathematician
- Thomas Hakon Grnwall (1877-1932), mathematician, taught at Princeton and Columbia (studied in Uppsala and Stockholm, awarded Ph.D. by Uppsala University in 1898)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Gronwall.html
- David Enskog (1884-1947), mathematician, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1917)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Enskog.html
- Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics 1924
- Fritz Carlson (1888-1952), mathematician, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology and later at the Stockholm University College (Ph.D. 1914)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Carlson.html
- Torsten Carleman (1892-1949), mathematician, Professor and Director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm (Ph.D. 1917)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Carleman.html
- Bertil Lindblad (1895-1965), astronomer; Professor and head of the Stockholm Observatory. Awarded Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1948 and Bruce Medal 1954.
- Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896-1966), physicist, professor at Stockholm University, eponym of the unit sievert (M.A. 1919)
- ke Wallenquist (1904-1994), astronomer
- Arne Beurling (1905-1986), mathematician
- Hannes Alfvn (1908-1995), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics 1970
- Kai Siegbahn (b. 1918), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics 1981. Son of Manne Siegbahn.
Chemistry, geology and mineralogy - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709-1785), chemist and mineralogist
- Torbern Bergman (1735-1784), chemist
- Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745-1818), mineralogist, discoverer of manganese
- Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), chemist, physicist and mineralogist
- Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767-1813), chemist, discoverer of tantalum
- Jns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848), physician and chemist, considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; invented modern chemical notation and discovered the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium
- Nils Gabriel Sefstrm (1787-1845), chemist, discoverer of vanadium
- Johan August Arfwedson (1792-1841), chemist, discoverer of lithium
- Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840-1899), chemist, discoverer of scandium
- Per Teodor Cleve (1840-1905), chemist and geologist.
- Gerard De Geer (1848-1943), geologist who made significant contributions to Quaternary geology.
- Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), physicist and chemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1903
- Abraham Langlet, chemist who discovered helium in 1895 together with Per Teodor Cleve, independently from William Ramsay) and defined its atomic weight correctly. Later professor at the Chalmers University of Technology.
- Theodor (The) Svedberg (1884-1971), chemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1926
Medicine and life sciences - Olaus Rudbeckius (1630-1702), a physician and professor of medicine as well as an engineer, architect and an imaginative writer of chauvinistic (pseudo)history
- Olaus Rudbeckius, junior (1660-1740), botanist
- Peter Artedi (1705-1735), naturalist and friend of Linnaeus, called "the father of Ichtyology"
- Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), botanist, the father of taxonomy
- Students of Linnaeus:
- Pehr Kalm (1716-1779), botanist
- Fredric Hasselquist (1722-1752), naturalist and traveller
- Peter Forsskl (1732-1763), explorer, orientalist and naturalist
- Daniel Solander (1733-1782), botanist
- Johann Beckmann (1739-1811), German scientific author, coiner of the word technology
- Adam Kuhn (1741-1817), one of the first professors of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and thus one of the first in North America (probably the only American student of Linnaeus)
- Johan Zoega (1742-1788), Danish botanist and economist
- Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), botanist
- Johan Christian Fabricius (1745-1808), Danish entomologist.
- Anders Sparrman (1748-1820), physician and naturalist
- Adam Afzelius (1750-1837), botanist
- Anders Dahl (1751-1789), botanist for whom the dahlia flower is named
- Jonas C. Dryander, naturalist and bibliographer, Librarian of the Royal Society, Vice-President of the Linnean Society of London
- Peter Gustaf Tengmalm (1754-1803), physician and naturalist
- Erik Acharius (1757-1819), botanist
- Gran Wahlenberg (1780-1851), botanist
- Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), botanist, the father of modern mushroom taxonomy
- Adolf Appellf (1857-1921), teuthologist
- Allvar Gullstrand (1862-1930), ophthalmologist; Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1911
- Robert Brny (1876-1936), physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1914 (professor in Uppsala from 1917)
- Erik Stensi (1891-1984), paleozoologist, Professor at the Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. Awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London 1957.
- Arne Tiselius (1902-1971), biochemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1948.
- Svante Pbo (b. 1955), evolutionary biologist
Explorers - Sven Hedin (1865-1952; fil. kand. 1888; honorary doctorate 1935), known for his travels through Central Asia. The last person to be ennobled in Sweden.
- Finn Malmgren (1895-1928), arctic explorer (Ph.D. in meteorology 1927, participated in several arctic expeditions and died in one 1928.)
Humanities and social sciences - Johan Ihre, philologist
- Anders Berch, economist
- Anders Chydenius, clergyman, economist
- August Ludwig von Schlzer, studied 1755/56 with Johan Ihre
- Erik Gustaf Geijer, historian, poet, composer
- Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, poet, professor of poetry
- Artur Hazelius (18331901), founder of the Nordic Museum and the open-air museum Skansen in Stockholm. (Ph.D. 1860)
- Knut Wicksell (1851-1926), economist
- Eli Heckscher, economic historian
- Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist
- Henrik Samuel Nyberg, orientalist
- ke W. Sjberg, Professor emeritus of Sumerian at the University of Pennsylvania, first editor of The Sumerian dictionary
- Tor Andr, scholar of Comparative religion, orientalist, Bishop
- Geo Widengren, comparative religion
- Torgny Sve-Sderbergh, egyptologist
- Georges Dumzil, scholar of comparative religion, lecturer of French 1931-1933
- Michel Foucault, lecturer of French 1954-1958 (received the position through Dumzil)
Industry Arts Literature - Georg Stiernhielm
- Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795), poet and composer (matriculated 1758 but left after less than a year)
- Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847), historian, poet and composer
- Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, poet
- August Strindberg (1849-1912), novelist and playwright
- Gustaf Frding (1860-1911), poet
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931), poet. Nobel laureate in literature 1931 (posthumously)
- Pr Lagerkvist (1891-1974), novelist, playwright. Nobel laureate in literature 1951.
- Karin Boye (1900-1941), poet and novelist
- Sara Lidman (1923-2004), novelist
- Hkan Nesser (b. 1950), detective novelist
- Per Olov Enquist, novelist
- Lars Gustafsson, novelist
Music - Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uplandia (1827-1852), song composer, matriculated 1844 and studied several semesters in Uppsala
- Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, politician and civil servant
- Jacob Axel Josephson, studied in Uppsala, composer, director musices of Uppsala University
- Hugo Alfvn, composer, director musices of Uppsala University
- Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer, director musices of Uppsala University
- Lars-Erik Larsson, composer, director musices of Uppsala University
- Petter Askergren, (known as "Petter"), Swedish rap artist
- Rickard Westman, member of folk music group Garmarna
Theatre and entertainment - Svante Hedin (1822-1896), studied 1840-45, actor in the Royal Theatre in Stockholm
- Tage Danielsson, writer and entertainer (matriculated 1949, MA 1955, was vice chairman of the Student Union)
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