Uppsala University, Sweden. Home of great scientists Linnaeus, Celsius, Berzelius. In Uppsala, citation of insightful article on how aquatic ecosystem functions and cleans water. Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks. Water quality, water, self-purification, organisms, pollution control, environmental safety, ~ CookingFood.Org

Uppsala University, Sweden. Home of great scientists Linnaeus, Celsius, Berzelius, Arrhenius. In Uppsala, citation of insightful article on how aquatic ecosystem functions and cleans water. Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks.

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/06/uppsala-university-sweden-home-of-great.html

Tags: Water quality, water, self-purification, organisms, pollution control, environmental safety,

The article that was cited by scientists of Uppsala University and more than 20 other scientific institutions of Europe, N. America and Asia:

Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks. - Hydrobiologia. 2002, 469: 203-204.
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The article (authored by scientists of 22 European institutions) that cited the abovementioned paper:
Keune H., Kretsch C., De Blust G., Gilbert M., Flandroy L., Van den Berge K., ... & Bauler T. (2013). Science–policy challenges for biodiversity, public health and urbanization: examples from Belgium. Environmental Research Letters, 8(2), 025015.
[open access journal]

Uppsala University places well in many rankings. Sources of information include Wikipedia.

Ranking (year)	World Rank	European Rank	National Rank
Academic Ranking of World Universities (2010)	# 66	# 18	# 2
Web Ranking of European Universities (2013)	# 146	# 38	# 3
QS World University Rankings (2012)	# 81	# 29	# 2
Times Higher Education (2012/2013)	# 106	# 35	# 3

Notable people

Main article: List of Uppsala University People

Nobel laureates affiliated with Uppsala University [edit]

Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1903
Allvar Gullstrand (1862–1930), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1911
Robert Bárány (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 Alfvén (1908–1995), Nobel Laureate in Physics 1970
Kai Siegbahn (1918–2007), Nobel Laureate in Physics 1981.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931), Nobel laureate in literature 1931 (posthumously)
Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974), Nobel laureate in literature 1951.
Hjalmar Branting (1860–1925), Nobel Peace Laureate in 1921.
Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931), Nobel peace laureate in 1931
Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), Nobel Peace Laureate in 1982
Hugo Theorell (1903–1982), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1955. (Worked at Uppsala University 1932–33 and 1935–36.)
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), Nobel Peace Laureate in 1961 (posthumously).

Government, politics and civil service [edit]

Royalty [edit]

Crown Prince Carl (the later king 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 Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, also known as an accomplished archaeologist and connoisseur of East Asian art
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland^[1]

International work [edit]

Hjalmar Branting (1860–1925), Prime Minister of Sweden (first Social Democrat in that position) for three periods from 1920 to 1925. Nobel Peace Laureate in 1921.
Per Jacobsson (1894–1963), Managing Director of the IMF 1956–1963
Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), Politician, diplomat. Nobel Peace Laureate in 1982.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), UN Secretary General. Nobel Peace Laureate in 1961 (posthumously).
Samuel Gustaf Hermelin - Swedish Ambassador to the United States^[2]
Hans Blix (born 1928), Diplomat; Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978–1979, Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency 1981–1997, of theUNMOVIC 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 [edit]

Very incomplete

Hans Henric von Essen (1755–1824), Over-Governor of Stockholm, Governor-general of Norway
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.
Karl Gustaf Westman (1876–1944), Leader of Bondeförbundet, held several ministerial posts, Minister of Justice 1936–1944
Yngve Larsson (1881–1977), Municipal commissioner (Borgarråd) of Stockholm, urbanist, statesman
Östen Undén (1886–1974), professor of civil law at UU, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden 1924–1926 and 1945–1962
Paul Lindquist (born 1964), Mayor of Lidingö, BSc in Business Administration (1989).
Valfrid Palmgren (1877-1967), one of the first female members of the Stockholm City Council and a reformer of the public libraries.
Lena Sommestad (born 1957), Minister for the Environment (as of 2005), Ph.D. in history (1992).

Non-Swedes [edit]

Onésimo Silveira, Cape Verdean diplomat, politician and writer (Ph.D., Political science, 1976)
Stane Dolanc (1925–1999), Yugoslav (Slovenian) politician, head of the security service under Tito
Guðmundur Steingrímsson (born 1972), Icelandic politician

Religion [edit]

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.

Nicolaus Olai Campanius (1593-1624), priest
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), scientist, philosopher and religious mystic
Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861), clergyman and botanist, founder of the conservative laestadian movement.
Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931), professor of comparative religion. Later archbishop of Uppsala and Nobel peace laureate in 1931
Gustaf Unonius (1810–1902), Episcopalian priest
Israel Acrelius (1714–1800), Lutheran missionary to New Sweden and author who wrote History of New Sweden
Johan Campanius (1601–1683), Lutheran clergyman assigned to New Sweden
Carl Aaron Swensson (1857–1904), American Lutheran minister and founder of Bethany College

Natural sciences and medicine [edit]

Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy [edit]

Anders Celsius

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 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 College(M.A. 1881, Ph.D. 1890)[1]
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 and Columbia (studied in Uppsala and Stockholm, awarded Ph.D. by Uppsala University in 1898)[2]
David Enskog (1884–1947), mathematician, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1917)[3]
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 theStockholm University College (Ph.D. 1914)[4]
Torsten Carleman (1892–1949), mathematician, Professor and Director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm (Ph.D. 1917)[5]
Gunnar Malmquist (1893–1982), astronomer, Professor in Uppsala 1939–1959.
Bertil Lindblad (1895–1965), astronomer; Professor and head of the Stockholm Observatory. Awarded theGold 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 Laureate in Physics 1970
Kai Siegbahn (1918-2007), physicist; 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 (born 1944), astronomer
Johan Håstad (born 1960), mathematician and computer scientist (M.Sc. 1984)

Chemistry, geology and mineralogy [edit]

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, andcerium
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 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 (The) Svedberg (1884–1971), chemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1926
Filip Hjulström (1902–1982), geographer (Prof. 1944)

Medicine and life sciences [edit]

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 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 Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1911
Robert Bárány (1876–1936), physician, 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 Laureate in Chemistry 1948.
Hans Rosling (born 1948), medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker
Svante Pääbo (born 1955), evolutionary biologist

Explorers [edit]

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 [edit]

Johan Gunnar Andersson, archaeologist
Tor Andræ, scholar of Comparative religion, orientalist, Bishop
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, poet, professor of poetry
Anders Berch, economist
Anders Chydenius, clergyman, economist
Bengt Danielsson, ethnologist, crewmember of Kon Tiki expedition
Georges Dumézil, scholar of comparative religion, lecturer of French 1931–1933
Michel Foucault, lecturer of French 1954–1958 (received the position through Dumézil)
Erik Gustaf Geijer, historian, poet, composer
Carl August Hagberg (1810–1864), linguist and translator
Artur Hazelius (1833–1901), founder of the Nordic Museum and the open-air museum Skansen in Stockholm. (Ph.D. 1860)
Eli Heckscher, economic historian
Johan Ihre, philologist
Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist
Rudolf Kjellén, political scientist
Gerhard Lindblom (1887–1969), ethnographer, working in East Africa
Eva Lundgren, feminist scholar and sociologist
Oscar Montelius, archaeologist
Carl Gustaf Nordin (1749–1812), historian, antiquarian and politician, Bishop of Härnösand from 1812.
Adolf Noreen (1854–1925), linguist
Henrik Samuel Nyberg, orientalist
Torgny Säve-Söderbergh, egyptologist
August Ludwig von Schlözer, studied 1755/56 with Johan Ihre
Åke W. Sjöberg, assyriologist. Professor emeritus of Sumerian at the University of Pennsylvania, first editor of The Sumerian dictionary
Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), economist

Industry [edit]

Christopher Polhem (1661–1751)
Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913), engineer, co-founder of the present Alfa Laval
Jan Stenbeck (1942–2002)
Karl Jöreskog (1935-) Professor Emeritus, a co-author (with Dag Sörbom) of LISREL statistical program.
Hans Dalborg (1941-)
Carl-Henric Svanberg (1952-)
Niklas Zennström (1966-)

Arts [edit]

August Strindberg, photographic selfportrait

Literature [edit]

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 laureate in literature 1931 (posthumously)
Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941), novelist
Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974), novelist, playwright. 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 [edit]

Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland (1827–1852), song composer, matriculated 1844 and studied several semesters in Uppsala
Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, politician and civil servant
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 artist
Rickard Westman, member of folk music group Garmarna

Theatre and entertainment [edit]

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)

Botanist, physician and zoologist Carl Linnaeus

Niklas Zennström, co-founder of KaZaAand Skype

Uppsala University is associated with 8 Nobel Prize laureates, and numerous royalty, academics and public figures.

As the dominant academic institution in Sweden for several centuries, Uppsala University has ever since its first period of expansion in the early part of the 17th century educated a large proportion of Swedish politicians and civil servants, from 17th century Chancellor of the Realm (rikskansler) Johan Oxenstierna (1611–1657) and Lord Chief Justice (riksdrots) Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622–1686) to the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden, Hjalmar Branting (1860–1925) and many later politicians. Other alumni are Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), United Nations Secretary General who was (posthumously) awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961, and the Swedish diplomat Hans Blix (b. 1928), who was Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency 1981–1997, of the UNMOVIC 2000–2003, and previously Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978–1979. Hammarskjöld and Blix both graduated from the Uppsala Faculty of Law, as did the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003.

Most Swedish clergymen, including most bishops and archbishops, have been educated at the university, including, in more recent times, Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931), Professor of the History of Religions in the Faculty of Theology, later Archbishop of Uppsala, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930 for his work as leader of the ecumenical movement.

The university became prominent in the sciences in the 18th century with names such as the physician and botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), the father of biological and mineralogical taxonomy, and his numerous important pupils, the physicist and astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), inventor of the Celsius scale the predecessor of the Celsius scale, and the chemist Torbern Bergman (1735–1784). Another scientist from this era is Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), better remembered today as a religious mystic. Several of the elements were discovered by Uppsala scientists during this period or later. Jöns Jakob Berzelius, one of the fathers of modern chemistry, received his doctorate in medicine in Uppsala in 1804, but later moved to Stockholm. Uppsala scientists of the 19th century include the physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874). During the 20th century several Nobel laureates in the sciences have been Uppsala alumni or professors at the university.

Many well-known Swedish writers have studied in Uppsala: Georg Stiernhielm (1698–1672) is often called the father of Swedish poetry. The poet and song composer Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795), without doubt the best-loved and best-remembered of Swedish 18th century poets, matriculated but left the university after less than a year. The writer, historian and composer Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), professor of history, and the poet Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790–1855), professor of poetry, were principal figures of early 19th-century Swedish romanticism. The less than happy experiences of the Uppsala student life of novelist and playwright August Strindberg (1849–1912), resulted in his Från Fjärdingen och Svartbäcken (1877), a collection of short stories set in Uppsala ("From Fjärdingen and Svartbäcken", the title refers to two districts in Uppsala). Other Uppsala alumni are the poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931), who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1918, but received it posthumously in 1931, the novelist and playwright Pär Lagerkvist(1891–1974), Nobel laureate in 1951, and the poet and novelist Karin Boye (1900–1941), for whom one branch of the university library has been named. The Communist leader Ture Nerman (1886–1969) wrote a novel called Olympen, based on his experience as a student in Uppsala. Niklas Zennström, co-founder of KaZaA and Skype is also a former student at Uppsala University. On 15 August 2008 Zennström donated 15 million SEK to Uppsala University for climate research. The late Jan Stenbeck, a Nordic media mogul who controlled Modern Times Group, was also an alumnus of Uppsala University.

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