







The Most Famous
Chemists from Sweden
Top 10 Swedish Chemists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Swedish Chemists of all time. This list of famous Swedish Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Swedish Chemists.
- #1

Alfred Nobel
1833 - 1896
HPI 88.86159 langsAlfred Nobel is most famous for inventing dynamite.
- #2

Svante Arrhenius
1859 - 1927
HPI 80.5593 langsSvante Arrhenius was a Swedish chemist and physicist who is most famous for his work in thermodynamics. He is also known for his discovery...Read moreShow less
Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish chemist and physicist who is most famous for his work in thermodynamics. He is also known for his discovery of the greenhouse effect.
- #3

Jöns Jacob Berzelius
1779 - 1848
HPI 80.1376 langsJöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist who is most famous for his work with chemical elements and the development of the periodic table.
- #4

Theodor Svedberg
1884 - 1971
HPI 74.0064 langsTheodor Svedberg was a Swedish scientist who is most famous for his work in the field of colloid chemistry. He is credited with inventing...Read moreShow less
Theodor Svedberg was a Swedish scientist who is most famous for his work in the field of colloid chemistry. He is credited with inventing the ultracentrifuge, which is a device used to separate particles in a fluid by their size.
- #5

Arne Tiselius
1902 - 1971
HPI 73.7963 langsArne Tiselius was a Swedish chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 for his work on electrophoresis, a technique for separating...Read moreShow less
Arne Tiselius was a Swedish chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 for his work on electrophoresis, a technique for separating molecules by their electric charge.
- #6

Sune Bergström
1916 - 2004
HPI 71.7450 langsSune Bergström is most famous for his discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin.
- #7

Bengt I. Samuelsson
1934 - 2024
HPI 71.1148 langsBengt I. Samuelsson is most famous for being the first person to win three consecutive James Beard Awards for Outstanding Chef.
- #8

Johan Gottlieb Gahn
1745 - 1818
HPI 68.7831 langsSwedish chemist (1745-1818)
- #9

Johan August Arfwedson
1792 - 1841
HPI 67.5535 langsJohan August Arfwedson was a Swedish explorer who was most famous for the discovery of the Arfwedson Glacier in Greenland.
- #10

Georg Brandt
1694 - 1768
HPI 66.8928 langsSwedish chemist and mineralogist
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Overlapping Lives
Which Chemists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 19 most globally memorable Chemists since 1700.










