List of Uppsala University people 1303031 224123357 2008-07-07T12:26:47Z Axt 1029300 {{Uppsala University}} This is a list of notable people affiliated with [[Uppsala University]]. For a list of chancellors of the university, see [[Chancellor of Uppsala University]]. [[Image:Carolina Rediviva Linnaeus statue.jpg|thumb|The statue of [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] in the entrance hall of [[Carolina Rediviva]], the main building of the university library, Uppsala.]] ==Nobel laureates affiliated with Uppsala University== *[[Svante Arrhenius]] (1859–1927), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Laureate in Chemistry]] 1903 *[[Allvar Gullstrand]] (1862–1930), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine]] 1911 *[[Robert Bárány]] (1876–1936), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine]] 1914 *[[Theodor Svedberg|Theodor (The) Svedberg]] (1884–1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Laureate in Chemistry]] 1926 *[[Manne Siegbahn]] (1886–1978), [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Laureate in Physics]] 1924 *[[Arne Tiselius]] (1902–1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Laureate in Chemistry]] 1948. *[[Hannes Alfvén]] (1908–1995), [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Laureate in Physics]] 1970 *[[Kai Siegbahn]] (1918–2007), [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Laureate in Physics]] 1981. *[[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]] (1864–1931), [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate in literature]] 1931 (posthumously) *[[Pär Lagerkvist]] (1891–1974), [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate in literature]] 1951. *[[Hjalmar Branting]] (1860–1925), [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Laureate]] in 1921. *[[Nathan Söderblom]] (1866–1931), [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel peace laureate]] in 1931 *[[Alva Myrdal]] (1902–1986), [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Laureate]] in 1982 *[[Hugo Theorell]] (1903–1982), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine]] 1955. (Worked at Uppsala University 1932-33 and 1935-36.) *[[Dag Hammarskjöld]] (1905–1961), [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Laureate]] in 1961 (posthumously). ==Government, politics and civil service== ===Royalty=== [[Image:Princes Carl and Gustaf in Uppsala 1846.jpg|thumb|350px|Crown Prince Carl (the later king [[Charles XV of Sweden|Charles XV]]) and his brother Prince Gustaf, known as a song composer (the two young men closest to the pulpit), attending a lecture held by Law Professor Johan Christopher Lindblad (1799-1876) in the Theatrum Œconomicum, [[Uppsala]]. (Lithograph from 1846.)]] *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 Uppland]] (1827–1852), song composer, matriculated 1844 and studied several semesters in Uppsala *King [[Oscar II of Sweden]] *[[Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland]] (born 1861), student 1881-1882 *[[Prince Eugén, Duke of Närke]], artist and art collector *King [[Gustav V of Sweden]] *King [[Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden]], also known as an accomplished archaeologist and connoisseur of East Asian art *King [[Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden]] ===International work=== *[[Hjalmar Branting]] (1860–1925), [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (first [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democrat]] in that position) for three periods from 1920 to 1925. [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Laureate]] in 1921. *[[Per Jacobsson]] (1894–1963), Managing Director of the [[International Monetary Fund|IMF]] 1956-1963 *[[Alva Myrdal]] (1902–1986), Politician, diplomat. [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Laureate]] in 1982. *[[Dag Hammarskjöld]] (1905–1961), [[UN]] Secretary General. [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Laureate]] in 1961 (posthumously). *[[Sture Linnér]], diplomat (Ph.D. in [[Classical philology]]) *[[Hans Blix]] (born 1928), Diplomat; Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978-1979, Head of the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] 1981-1997, of the [[UNMOVIC]] 2000-2003. *[[Hans Corell]] (born 1939), Diplomat; [[UN]] Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs *[[Anna Lindh]] (1957–2003), Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs. Assassinated in 2003. ===Various Swedish politicians=== ''Very incomplete'' *[[Gustaf Nils Algernon Stierneld]] (1791–1868), Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1838 to 1842, and from 1848 to 1856 *[[Nils Edén]] (1871–1945), historian and liberal politician, [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] 1917–1920. *[[Paul Lindquist]] (born 1964), Mayor of [[Lidingö]], BSc in Business Administration (1989). *[[Karl Gustaf Westman]] (1876–1944), Leader of Bondeförbundet, held several ministerial posts, Minister of Justice 1936-1944 *[[Östen Undén]] (1886–1974), professor of civil law at UU, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden 1924–1926 and 1945–1962 *[[Lena Sommestad]] (born 1957), Minister for the Environment (as of 2005), Ph.D. in history (1992). ===Non-Swedes=== *[[Oresimo Silveira]], [[Cap Verde]]an diplomat, politician and writer (Ph.D., Political science, 1976) *[[Stane Dolanc]] (1925–1999), Yugoslav (Slovenian) politician, head of the security service under Tito ==Religion== [[Image:Emanuel Swedenborg2.jpg|thumb|[[Emanuel Swedenborg]]]] ''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.'' *[[Emanuel Swedenborg]] (1688–1772), scientist, philosopher and religious mystic *[[Lars Levi Laestadius]] (1800–1861), clergyman and botanist, founder of the conservative [[laestadianism|laestadian movement]]. *[[Nathan Söderblom]] (1866–1931), professor of comparative religion. Later [[archbishop of Uppsala]] and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel peace laureate]] in 1931 ==Natural sciences and medicine== ===Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy=== [[Image:Anders Celsius.jpg|thumb|[[Anders Celsius]]]] [[Image:AÅngström.jpg|thumb|[[Anders Jonas Ångström]]]] *[[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, the predecessor of the Celsius scale *[[Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin]] (1717–1783), astronomer, first head of the [[Stockholm Observatory]] *[[Johan Carl Wilcke]] (1732–1796), physicist *[[Anders Jonas Ångström]] (1814–1874), physicist, eponym of the unit [[ångström]] *[[Tobias Robert Thalén]] (1827–1905), astronomer and physicist, awarded [[Rumford Medal]] 1884 "for his spectroscopic researches" *[[Nils Christoffer Dunér]] (1839–1914), astronomer, professor of astronomy in Uppsala from 1888, awarded the [[Rumford Medal]] in 1892. *[[Oskar Backlund]] (1846–1916), astronomer *[[Gösta Mittag-Leffler]] (1846–1927), mathematician, Professor and Rector at [[Stockholm University|Stockholm University College]], founder of the journal [[Acta mathematica]] (1882-) and the [[Mittag-Leffler Institute]] (Ph.D. 1872) *[[Knut Ångström]] (1857–1910), physicist *[[Ivar Otto Bendixson]] (1861–1935), mathematician, Professor and Rector at [[Stockholm University|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 Grönwall]] (1877–1932), mathematician, taught at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] and [[Columbia University|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 Prize in Physics|Nobel Laureate in Physics]] 1924 *[[Fritz Carlson]] (1888–1952), mathematician, Professor at the [[Royal Institute of Technology]] and later at the [[Stockholm University|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] *[[Gunnar Malmquist]] (1893–1982), astronomer, Professor in Uppsala 1939-1959. *[[Bertil Lindblad]] (1895–1965), astronomer; Professor and head of the [[Stockholm Observatory]]. Awarded the [[Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society]] 1948 and the [[Bruce Medal]] 1954. *[[Rolf Maximilian Sievert]] (1896–1966), physicist, professor at [[Stockholm University]], eponym of the unit [[sievert]] (M.A. 1919) *[[Åke Wallenquist]] (1904–1994), astronomer *[[Arne Beurling]] (1905–1986), mathematician *[[Hannes Alfvén]] (1908–1995), physicist; [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Laureate in Physics]] 1970 *[[Kai Siegbahn]] (born 1918), physicist; [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Laureate in Physics]] 1981. Son of Manne Siegbahn. *[[Lennart Carleson]] (born 1928), mathematician (Ph.D. 1950), prof. at UU, later (after retirement) at [[UCLA]]. Awarded the [[Wolf Prize in Mathematics]] in 1992. *[[Björn Engquist]] (born 1945), mathematician (Ph.D. 1975), professor at the [[Royal Institute of Technology]] and [[Princeton University]] *[[Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist]], astronomer *[[Johan Håstad]] (born 1960), mathematician and computer scientist (M.Sc. 1984) ===Chemistry, geology and mineralogy=== [[Image:Jöns Jacob Berzelius from Familj-Journalen1873.png|thumb|[[Jöns Jakob Berzelius]]]] *[[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]] *[[Jöns 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 Sefström]] (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 Prize in Chemistry|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]]. *[[V. Walfrid Ekman]] (1874–1954), oceanographer (Ph.D. 1902) *[[Theodor Svedberg|Theodor (The) Svedberg]] (1884–1971), chemist; [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|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 [[pseudohistory|(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 Forsskål]] (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; was for a time the family physician of [[George Washington]]. Was 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 *[[Göran Wahlenberg]] (1780–1851), botanist *[[Elias Magnus Fries]] (1794–1878), botanist, the father of modern [[mushroom]] [[taxonomy]] *[[Alarik Frithiof Holmgren]] (1831-1897), physiologist *[[Gustaf Retzius]] (1842–1919), anatomist. Professor at [[Karolinska Institutet]] 1877-1890; member of the [[Swedish Academy]]. Began his studies in Uppsala, where he took his [[med.kand.]], later transferred to KI and [[Lund University]] *[[Karl Oskar Medin]] (1847–1928), paediatrician, famous for his study of poliomyelitis. Professor at the [[Karolinska Institutet]] 1883-1914. Completed his doctorate in Uppsala 1880. *[[Adolf Appellöf]] (1857–1921), teuthologist *[[Allvar Gullstrand]] (1862–1930), ophthalmologist; [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine]] 1911 *[[Robert Bárány]] (1876–1936), physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine]] 1914 (professor in Uppsala from 1917) *[[Erik Stensiö]] (1891–1984), paleozoologist, Professor at the [[Swedish Museum of Natural History]], Stockholm. Awarded the Linnean Medal of the [[Linnean Society of London]] 1957. *[[Erik Jarvik]] (1907–1998), paleozoologist, Professor at the [[Swedish Museum of Natural History]], Stockholm (succeeded Erik Stensiö). (Ph.D. in Uppsala 1942.) *[[Arne Tiselius]] (1902–1971), biochemist; [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Laureate in Chemistry]] 1948. *[[Svante Pääbo]] (born 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 Schlözer]], studied 1755/56 with [[Johan Ihre]] *[[Carl Gustaf Nordin]] (1749–1812), historian, antiquarian and politician, [[Bishop of Härnösand]] from 1812. *[[Erik Gustaf Geijer]], historian, poet, composer *[[Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom]], poet, professor of poetry *[[Artur Hazelius]] (1833–1901), founder of the [[Nordic Museum]] and the open-air museum [[Skansen]] in Stockholm. (Ph.D. 1860) *[[Oscar Montelius]], archaeologist *[[Johan Gunnar Andersson]], archaeologist *[[Knut Wicksell]] (1851–1926), economist *[[Rudolf Kjellén]], political scientist *[[Gerhard Lindblom]] (1887–1969), ethnographer, working in East Africa *[[Eli Heckscher]], economic historian *[[Bernhard Karlgren]], sinologist *[[Bengt Danielsson]], ethnologist, crewmember of [[Kon Tiki]] expedition *[[Henrik Samuel Nyberg]], orientalist *[[Åke W. Sjöberg]], assyriologist. Professor emeritus of Sumerian at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], first editor of [[The Sumerian dictionary of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania|The Sumerian dictionary]] *[[Tor Andræ]], scholar of Comparative religion, orientalist, Bishop *[[Geo Widengren]], comparative religion *[[Torgny Säve-Söderbergh]], egyptologist *[[Georges Dumézil]], scholar of comparative religion, lecturer of French 1931-1933 *[[Michel Foucault]], lecturer of French 1954-1958 (received the position through Dumézil) ==Industry== *[[Gustaf de Laval]] (1845–1913), engineer, co-founder of the present [[Alfa Laval]] ==Arts== [[Image:August Strindberg photographic selfportrait 2.jpg|thumb|[[August Strindberg]], photographic selfportrait]] ===Literature=== *[[Georg Stiernhielm]] (1598–1672), Swedish poet, linguist and civil servant *[[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 *[[Erik Johan Stagnelius]] (1793–1823), poet *[[Per Ulrik Kernell]] (1797–1824), poet *[[Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom]], poet *[[August Strindberg]] (1849–1912), novelist and playwright *[[Henrik Schück]] (1855–1947), literary historian. *[[Axel Munthe]] (1857–1949), physician and writer *[[Gustaf Fröding]] (1860–1911), poet *[[Oscar Levertin]] (1862–1906), poet and critic *[[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]] (1864–1931), poet. [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate in literature]] 1931 (posthumously) *[[Hjalmar Söderberg]] (1869–1941), novelist *[[Pär Lagerkvist]] (1891–1974), novelist, playwright. [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate in literature]] 1951. *[[Karin Boye]] (1900–1941), poet and novelist *[[Gösta Knutsson]] (1908–1973), radio producer and author of children's books *[[Sara Lidman]] (1923–2004), novelist *[[Kerstin Ekman]] (born 1933), novelist *[[Per Olov Enquist]] (born 1934), novelist *[[Lars Gustafsson]] (born 1936), novelist *[[Peter Nilson]] (1937–1988), novelist, essayist and astronomer *[[Håkan Nesser]] (born 1950), detective novelist *[[Mari Jungstedt]] (born 1962), journalist and novelist *[[Ola Larsmo]] (born 1957), novelist *[[Kevin MacNeil]], novelist,poet and playwright. Former Writer in Residence at Uppsala. ===Music=== *[[Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland]] (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 Alfvén]], composer, director musices of Uppsala University *[[Wilhelm Stenhammar]], composer, director musices of Uppsala University *[[Lars-Erik Larsson]], composer, director musices of Uppsala University *[[Herbert Blomstedt]], orchestral conductor *[[Petter Askergren]], (known as "Petter"), Swedish [[rap music|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 [[Uppsala Student Union]]) {{Uppsala University}} [[Category:Uppsala University|**]] [[Category:Lists of people by university in Sweden|Uppsala]]