100 Notable alumni of
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology is 700th in the world, 252nd in Europe, and 6th in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from KTH Royal Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with KTH Royal Institute of Technology won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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Dolph Lundgren
- Occupations
- bodybuilderengineerjudokamodelchemist
- Biography
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Hans "Dolph" Lundgren is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. He gained recognition for portraying the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in his breakthrough role in Rocky IV (1985), a role he reprised in Creed II (2018).
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Max Tegmark
- Occupations
- cosmologistwriterphysicistastrophysicistastronomer
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Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing global catastrophic risks from advanced technologies.
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Ivar Kreuger
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1896-1899
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusiness executivefinanciercivil engineerengineer
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Ivar Kreuger was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. In 1908, he co-founded the construction company Kreuger & Toll Byggnads AB, which specialized in new building techniques. By aggressive investments and innovative financial instruments, he built a global match and financial empire. Between the two world wars, he negotiated match monopolies with European, Central American and South American governments, and finally controlled between two thirds and three quarters of worldwide match production, becoming known as the "Match King".
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Christer Fuglesang
- Occupations
- bloggerchildren's writerastronautphysicist
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Arne Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space.
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Salomon August Andrée
- Occupations
- explorerballoonistmechanical engineerengineerphotographer
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Salomon August Andrée, during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants.
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Hannes Alfvén
- Occupations
- science fiction writerelectrical engineerastronomeruniversity teacherphysicist
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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. Alfvén made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and the dynamics of plasmas in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Gunnar Asplund
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- architect
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Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by a lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space." The Woodland Crematorium at Stockholm South Cemetery (1935-1940) is considered his finest work and one of the masterpieces of modern architecture.
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Ali Ghodsi
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- computer scientistbusiness executive
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Ali Ghodsi is a Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur of Persian origin, specializing in distributed systems and big data. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. He coauthored several influential papers, including Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL.
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Gustaf de Laval
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1866
- Occupations
- scientistpoliticianmechanical engineerbusinesspersoninventor
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Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy.
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Ian Wachtmeister
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- writerengineerbusinesspersonpolitician
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Count Ian Melcher Shering Wachtmeister af Johannishus was a Swedish industrialist and politician. He was a member of the Swedish Riksdag from 1991 to 1994. He was the son of Count Ted Wachtmeister and Adrienne, née De Geer.
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Max Kidruk
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 2007
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writertraveleropinion journalist
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Maksym Ivanovych Kidruk is a Ukrainian travelogue and fiction writer and publisher. In 2009, he published Mexican Chronicles, which is an autobiography describing his journey across Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. Since then, Kidruk has traveled to 35 countries and written 28 books, including travelogues, adventure stories, and thrillers. Since 2012, he has been writing in the techno-thriller genre.
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Rolf Sievert
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
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Rolf Maximilian Sievert was a Swedish medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation.
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Håkan Samuelsson
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Håkan Samuelsson is a Swedish businessman who is chairman of the executive board (CEO) of Volvo Cars Corporation AB from October 2012 to January 2022. Previously, he was CEO of MAN SE from January 2005 to November 2009.
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Kurt Atterberg
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- choreographerconductorcomposerclassical composeruniversity teacher
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Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer and civil engineer. Along with Ture Rangström, he was one the foremost Swedish composers of the generation succeeding Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Hugo Alfvén. Atterberg is best known for his symphonies, operas, and ballets.
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Joe Armstrong
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- computer scientist
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Joseph Leslie Armstrong was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
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Börje Ekholm
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- businesspersonchief executive officer
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Börje Ekholm is a Swedish-American business executive and CEO of Ericsson.
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Ivar Jacobson
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- computer scientistinventor
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Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson is a Swedish computer scientist and software engineer, known as a major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process (RUP), aspect-oriented software development, and Essence.
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Anders Linder
- Occupations
- actorfilm score composerarchitectscreenwriterjazz musician
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Anders Hjalmar Linder is a Swedish actor and jazz musician. His father is Erik Hjalmar Linder and his son is Olle Linder. He is mainly known from the children's programs Ville, Valle och Viktor, Vintergatan, Björnes magasin and Kapten Zoom.
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Ferdinand Boberg
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1878-1882
- Occupations
- visual artistgraphic artistnon-fiction writerarchitect
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Gustaf Ferdinand Boberg was a Swedish architect.
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Ragnar Östberg
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1884-1888
- Occupations
- architect
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Ragnar Östberg was a Swedish architect who is best known for designing Stockholm City Hall.
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Thorsten Nordenfelt
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- businesspersoninventorbusiness executive
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Thorsten Nordenfelt was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.
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Waloddi Weibull
- Occupations
- mathematicianengineerstatisticianuniversity teacher
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Ernst Hjalmar Waloddi Weibull was a Swedish engineer, materials scientist, and applied mathematician. The Weibull distribution is named after him.
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Boris Hagelin
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- mathematicianengineerbusinessperson
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Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin was a Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines.
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Ernst Alexanderson
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- electrical engineerelectricianinventor
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Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor who was a pioneer in radio development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave long distance radio transmission. Alexanderson also created the amplidyne, a direct current amplifier used during the Second World War for controlling anti-aircraft guns.
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Lucid Fall
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- singerfarmersongwriter
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Jo Yun-suk, known by the stage name Lucid Fall (루시드폴), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He began his music career in 1997 as a member of the band Misoni (미선이), but has been most prolific as a solo artist, having released eleven studio albums since 2001. Lucid Fall's musical style incorporates folk, pop, and bossa nova. Since getting married and moving to Jeju Island in 2014 and becoming a tangerine orchardist, his output has also included ambient compositions. He uses a nylon guitar as his primary instrument and is known for his poetic lyrics.
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Minoo Akhtarzand
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- electrical engineer
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Minoo Hilda Akhtarzand is an Iranian-Swedish civil servant. Between 2008–2010 and 2010–2016, she served as Director-general of the Swedish Rail Administration and Governor of Jönköping County respectively.
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Dennis Gyllensporre
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1985-1991
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Tage Dennis Gyllensporre KmstkSO (born Öztürkmen; 14 July 1964) is a Swedish military officer with extensive experience in defense planning, international operations, and strategic leadership. He was commissioned in 1987 and began his career at the Norrland Signal Regiment, later holding various command and staff positions within the Swedish Armed Forces, NATO, and the United Nations.
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Carl Munters
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- inventorengineer
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Carl Georg Munters was a Swedish inventor, most known for inventing together with Baltzar von Platen the gas absorption refrigerator now sold by Electrolux. He also invented and patented a method of making foamed plastic, which was later rediscovered by Dow Chemical Company and used to make Styrofoam.
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Fredrik Ljungström
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- railway engineerentrepreneurmechanical engineerengineerinventor
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Fredrik Ljungström was a Swedish engineer, technical designer, and industrialist.
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Curt Nicolin
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Curt René Nicolin was a Swedish businessman. He served as the chairman of ASEA and the Swedish Employers Association.
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Gustaf Larson
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- businesspersonmechanical engineer
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Erik Gustaf Larson was a Swedish automotive engineer and the co-founder of Volvo. He held a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in mechanical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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Anders Franzén
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- archaeologistanthropologisthistorian
- Biography
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Carl Gustaf Anders Franzén was a Swedish marine technician and an amateur naval archaeologist. He is most famous for having located the 1628 wreck of the Swedish galleon Vasa in 1956 and participated in her salvage 1959–1961. He also participated in the exploration for the wrecks of Swedish warships Kronan, Riksäpplet and Resande Man as well as Gustav Vasa's flagship Lybska Svan.
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Knut Frænkel
- Occupations
- explorerballoonistpolar explorerengineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel was a Swedish engineer and arctic explorer who perished in the Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 of S. A. Andrée in 1897.
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Carl Schlyter
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- politicianenvironmentalist
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Carl Schlyter is a Swedish politician who has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014. He is a member of the Green Party, which is part of the European Greens, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
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Svante Lindqvist
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Lars Svante Albert Lindqvist is a Swedish historian who was the Marshal of the Realm of Sweden and chief of the Royal Court of Sweden from 1 January 2010 until 30 August 2018. Since 1 September 2018 he is appointed Chancellor of the Royal Orders of Knighthood, the chancery overseeing the Orders, decorations, and medals of Sweden.
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Alf Rehn
- Occupations
- professor
- Biography
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Alf Rehn is a Finnish professor, author and speaker based in Denmark. He was previously the Chair of Management and Organization at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Currently, he is a Professor of Innovation, Design, and Management at the University of Southern Denmark. Rehn works as a columnist, and sits on the board of directors for several companies, including Veikkaus.
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Alfred Grenander
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- 1881-1885 studied architecture
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander was a Swedish architect, who became one of the most prominent engineers during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn network in the early twentieth century.
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Peter Arvai
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- In 2005 graduated with master's degree in media engineering and media technology
- Occupations
- computer scientistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Peter Arvai is a Hungarian–Swedish businessman and activist. He is the Executive Chairman, co-founder and former CEO of Prezi, a cloud-based presentation software company. As an entrepreneur, he founded omvard.se in Sweden, and co-founded Prezi in 2009 along with designer Adam Somlai-Fischer and computer scientist and university professor Peter Halacsy. As of 2020, Prezi has more than 100 million users worldwide.
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Karl-Birger Blomdahl
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- university teacherconductorcomposer
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Karl-Birger Blomdahl was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental compositions he became one of the big names in Swedish modernism. His teachers included Hilding Rosenberg. He died in Kungsängen, Stockholm.
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Johan August Brinell
- Occupations
- mining engineerengineerindustrial leader
- Biography
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August Brinell was a Swedish metallurgical engineer.
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Samir Brikho
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
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Samir Yacoub Brikho FREng is a Lebanese-Swedish global businessman. He served as the Executive Chairman at fertilizer producer EuroChem Group AG, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SUEK AG, Chief Executive Officer of Amec Foster Wheeler, and other senior executive roles at ABB and ALSTOM.
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Erik Ivar Fredholm
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1885-1886
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Erik Ivar Fredholm was a Swedish mathematician whose work on integral equations and operator theory foreshadowed the theory of Hilbert spaces.
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Peter Celsing
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1938-1943
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Peter Elof Herman Torsten Folke von Celsing was a Swedish modernist architect.
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Peter Pohl
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- writerchildren's writerlectureruniversity teacher
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Peter Pohl is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work. From 1966 until his retirement in 2005, he was lecturer in Numerical analysis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Isak Gustaf Clason
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- university teacherarchitect
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Isak Gustaf Clason was a Swedish architect.
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Torben Grut
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- architect
- Biography
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Torben Grut was a Swedish architect.
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Willgodt Theophil Odhner
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- engineerbusinesspersoninventor
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Willgodt Theophil Odhner was a Swedish engineer and entrepreneur, working in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer, which by the 1940s was one of the most popular type of portable mechanical calculator in the world.
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Waldemar Jungner
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- engineerinventorchemical engineerbusinessperson
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Ernst Waldemar Jungner was a Swedish inventor and engineer. In 1898 he invented the nickel-iron electric storage battery (NiFe), the nickel-cadmium battery (NiCd), and the rechargeable alkaline silver-cadmium battery (AgCd). As an inventor, he also fabricated a fire alarm based on different dilutions of metals. He also worked on the electrolytic production of sodium carbonate and patented a rock drilling device.
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Lars Israel Wahlman
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- university teacherarchitectartist
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Lars Israël Wahlman was a Swedish architect. He was a supporter of the Arts and Crafts movement in Sweden and his architecture was influenced by romantic nationalism. His most famous work include Tjolöholm Castle and Engelbrekt Church. In his birthplace Hedemora one of the buildings he designed, the Wahlman building, bears his name.
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Lorena Delgado Varas
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- chemical engineerpolitician
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Lorena Olivia Delgado Varas is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag. Formerly a member of the Left Party, she has represented Stockholm Municipality since September 2018.
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Sune Lindström
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Sune Lindström was a Swedish architect.
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Helge Palmcrantz
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- engineerinventorentrepreneur
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Helge Palmcrantz was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.
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Ragnar Sohlman
- Occupations
- chemical engineerarchitectbusinesspersonchemistcivil engineer
- Biography
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Ragnar Sohlman was a Swedish chemical engineer, manager, civil servant, and creator of the Nobel Foundation.
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Carl Westman
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1885-1889
- Occupations
- painterarchitectdraftsperson
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Ernst Carl Westman was a Swedish architect and interior designer. He was an early adopter of the National Romantic Style, but turned later to the neo-classical style of the 1920s.
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Mostafa Ronaghi
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Mostafa Ronaghi is an Iranian molecular biologist, specializing in DNA sequencing methodology. As of 2008, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Illumina.
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Marcus Storch
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Marcus Storch is a Swedish industrialist. He received an engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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Axel Welin
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- businesspersondesigner
- Biography
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Ernst Martin Axel Welin, was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. He was married to Agnes Welin from 1889.
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Uno Åhrén
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- handicrafteruniversity teacherarchitecturban plannerauthor
- Biography
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Uno Åhrén was a Swedish architect and city planner, and a leading proponent of functionalism in Sweden.
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Robert Karjel
- Occupations
- military personnelwriterhelicopter pilot
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Robert Karjel is a Swedish writer of literary thrillers. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, and lives in Stockholm. A helicopter pilot, he is a Lt. Colonel in the Swedish Air Force and the only Swedish pilot who has trained with the U.S. Marines.
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Rudolf Fredrik Berg
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- engineerentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Rudolf Fredrik Berg, also known as R.F. Berg and Fritz Berg, was a Swedish engineer, industrialist and politician. He also founded the Swedish construction and development company Skanska.
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Per Hallström
- Occupations
- translatorpoetchemistwriter
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Per August Leonard Hallström was a Swedish author, short-story writer, dramatist, poet and member of the Swedish Academy. He joined the academy in 1908, and served as its Permanent Secretary from 1931 to 1941.
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Magnus Egerstedt
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in applied mathematics
- Occupations
- university teacherroboticistelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Magnus B. Egerstedt is a Swedish-American roboticist who is the Dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He was formerly the Steve C. Chaddick School Chair and Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Gunnar Fant
- Occupations
- linguistacademicengineer
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Carl Gunnar Michael Fant was a leading researcher in speech science in general and speech synthesis in particular who spent most of his career as a professor at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He was a first cousin of the actors and directors George Fant and Kenne Fant.
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Danica Kragic
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Danica Kragic is a professor of computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. She was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to vision-based systems and robotic object manipulation.
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Sara Mazur
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- In 1994 graduated with Doctor of Technology in plasma physics
- Occupations
- physicistelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Birgit Sara Mazur, is a Swedish physicist, electrical engineer, and business executive.
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Lars E. O. Svensson
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
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Lars Erik Oscar Svensson, is a Swedish economist. He was on the faculty of Princeton University 2001–2009. Since June 2014, he is Affiliated Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since 2009 he is Affiliated Professor at Stockholm University. He has published significant research in macroeconomics, especially monetary economics, international trade and general equilibrium theory. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He is a well-known proponent of price path targeting, a topic on which he published significant research.
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Olav Kallenberg
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianstatistician
- Biography
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Olav Kallenberg is a Swedish-American mathematician, working in all areas of probability theory. He is especially known for his work on random measures and probabilistic symmetries, and for his graduate-level textbooks and monographs. Since 2018 he is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Auburn University, AL.
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Maja Reichard
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Maja Reichard is a Swedish swimmer. She has a visual impairment caused by retinitis pigmentosa and competes in the S11 disability class. She's the reigning paralympic champion in 100 m breaststroke.
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Carl Bergsten
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Carl Gustaf Bergsten was a Swedish architect. He graduated in 1901 from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and three years later from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. A scholarship took him to Germany and to Vienna. He apprenticed with architects Isak Gustaf Clason and Erik Lallerstedt. Bergsten ran his own architectural firm from 1904-35. He was influenced by the National Romantic style and Functionalism. He designed a number of exhibition spaces including Liljevalchs konsthall. For the Norrköping Exhibition of Art and Industry in 1906, Bergsten designed the exhibition's two main buildings the Industrial Hall (Industrihallen) and the Art Exhibition Hall (Konsthallen) as well as the Hunting Pavilion (Jaktpaviljongen).
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Georg Theodor Chiewitz
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1827-1829
- Occupations
- engineerbusinesspersonarchitecturban planner
- Biography
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Georg Theodor Policron Chiewitz was a Swedish architect and engineer. Due to financial problems he moved to Finland in 1851, where Chiewitz spent the rest of his career.
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Leif Grung
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Leif Kuhnle Grung was a Norwegian architect. He was among the leading architects in Bergen during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Fredrik Lilljekvist
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Johan Fredrik Lilljekvist was a Swedish architect. He is best known for his controversial restoration of Gripsholm Castle and as the architect of the new building for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.
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Björn Engquist
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Björn Engquist is a Swedish mathematician, who is a professor at the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin. He has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians.
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Ivar Otto Bendixson
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ivar Otto Bendixson was a Swedish mathematician.
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Hakon Ahlberg
- Occupations
- editing staffarchitect
- Biography
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Hakon Ahlberg was a Swedish architect, author, and editor.
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Sigbritt Karlsson
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Doctor of Technology in chemistry
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sigbritt Karlsson was a Swedish chemical engineer and president of KTH Royal Institute of Technology between November 2016 and November 2022.
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Erik Josephson
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Erik Semmy Josephson was a Swedish architect.
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Carl-Axel Acking
- Occupations
- architectdesigner
- Biography
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Carl-Axel Acking was a Swedish architect, author and furniture designer, winner of the Lunning Prize in 1952.
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Harry von Eckermann
- Occupations
- geologistmineralogistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Harry von Eckermann was a Swedish industrialist, mineralogist and geologist. His studies were centered around anorogenic alkaline igneous rocks occurring in the Baltic Shield. Following this line he studied the Alnö Complex, Norra Kärr Alkaline Complex and various Rapakivi granites.
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Bengt Lindroos
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Bengt Ingmar Lindroos was a Swedish architect.
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Karl Lärka
- Occupations
- farmerphotographerfilm director
- Biography
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Karl Lärka was one of the more important 20th-century documentary photographers in Sweden. Lärka's prime concern was to document the peasant culture that he understood was beginning to disappear, and especially the culture of the lands around lake Siljan in Dalarna; one with agriculture, forestry and many people with stories about older times. Most of his photography was done from 1916 to 1934, and he combined it with lecture tours about the countryside of Siljan. He also documented many of the stories elderly people in the villages told him and was very active in the Swedish local heritage movement that started in the 1920s. More than 4,200 of his photographic plates are today in the municipal archive of Mora.
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Anders Martin-Löf
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- mathematicianstatistician
- Biography
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Anders Martin-Löf is a Swedish physicist and mathematician. He has been a professor in insurance mathematics and mathematical statistics since 1987 at the Department of Mathematics of Stockholm University.
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Erik Bratt
- Years
- 1916-2010 (aged 94)
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotengineer
- Biography
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Erik Gustaf Bratt was a Swedish engineer and pilot. Erik Bratt was the brother of Colonel Lars Bratt.
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Charles de Champs
- Occupations
- naval officer
- Biography
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Vice Admiral Charles Léon de Champs was a Swedish Navy officer who was the Chief of the Naval Staff from 1936 to 1937 and the Chief of the Navy from 1936 to 1939.
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Lars Backer
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Lars Thalian Backer was a Norwegian architect. Backer was a pioneer of modernism in Norwegian architecture during the 1920s.
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Jonas Hesselman
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1899
- Occupations
- inventorengineer
- Biography
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Jonas Hesselman was a Swedish engineer. He built the first spark ignition engine with direct injection of fuel into the cylinder.
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Gunnar von Heijne
- Occupations
- chemistchemical engineeruniversity teacherscientistbioinformatician
- Biography
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Professor Nils Gunnar Hansson von Heijne is a Swedish scientist working on signal peptides, membrane proteins and bioinformatics at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research at Stockholm University.
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Hans von Kantzow
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Hans von Kantzow was a metallurgical engineer and industrialist, managing director and CEO at Bultfabriks AB in Hallstahammar 1918–1957. Von Kantzow is known to have invented the steel alloy Kanthal. In 1931 AB Kanthal was founded for the exploitation of the invention.
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Henrik Kreüger
- Occupations
- architectcivil engineer
- Biography
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Henrik Kreüger was born in Kalmar, Sweden, and obtained his M.Sc. in civil engineering in 1904 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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Beatrice Rugland Timgren
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Beatrice Rugland Timgren is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. She is a Member of European Parliament for Sweden since July 2024, having been elected in the 2024 European election.
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Birger Ljungström
- Occupations
- industrial leadermechanical engineerengineerbusinesspersoninventor
- Biography
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Birger Ljungström was a Swedish engineer, technical designer, industrialist, and inventor.
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Tage William-Olsson
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- architect
- Biography
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Tage William-Olsson was a Swedish architect and chief town planning architect of Gothenburg. He was one of the designers of the Slussen traffic-roundabout infrastructure-project built during 1935 in Stockholm.
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Anders Lindquist
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Anders Gunnar Lindquist is a Swedish applied mathematician and control theorist. He has made contributions to the theory of partial realization, stochastic modeling, estimation and control, and moment problems in systems and control. He is known for the discovery of the fast filtering algorithms for (discrete-time) Kalman filtering in the early 1970s, and his work on the separation principle of stochastic optimal control and, in collaborations with Giorgio Picci, the Geometric Theory for Stochastic Realization.
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Carl Daniel Ekman
- Occupations
- chemical technologistchemical engineerinventor
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Carl Daniel Ekman was a Swedish chemical engineer who invented the form of the sulfite process of wood pulp manufacturing which was first established on a firm commercial basis, helping to replace rags as the main raw material of paper with wood pulp. The process was developed at Bergvik, Sweden, from 1871 to 1874, In 1879, he emigrated to England, and opened the Ekman Pulp and Paper Company mill in Northfleet, Kent near the mouth of the Thames River in 1886. He was also a consulting engineer and helped establish mills in Lachendorf, Celle, Germany, Dieppe, France, Rumford, Rhode Island, St. Petersburg, Russia, Corfu and Italy. After contracting malaria in French Guiana and losing a lawsuit on pollution of a Northfleet limestone quarry, he died bankrupt in Gravesend, Kent.
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Conny Palm
- Occupations
- computer scientiststatisticianelectrical engineermathematician
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Conrad "Conny" Rudolf Agaton Palm was a Swedish electrical engineer and statistician, known for several contributions to teletraffic engineering and queueing theory.
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Robert Dahlander
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Robert Dahlander was a Swedish engineer and public agency administrator. He was also highly active and commissioner in several technological associations in the fields of gas and electricity.
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Katarina Stensson
- Occupations
- politician
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Esther Katarina Stensson is a Swedish politician and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party with a term from 2019–2021 Stensson took a masters exam in engineering physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2014 and a degree in licentiate in physics in 2018. Stensson is the Vice-President of the company "Checheza AB", a company focused on online classes. In 2020 she took the teacher's exam to work as a teacher in physics and mathematics.
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Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- In 1996 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov is a Russian-German mathematician.
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Frank Spitzer
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Frank Ludvig Spitzer was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American mathematician who was a longtime professor at Cornell University and made fundamental contributions to probability theory, especially the theory of random walks, Brownian motion, and fluctuation theory, and then the theory of interacting particle systems. Other areas he made contributions to include percolation theory and the Wiener sausage. He focussed broadly on "phenomena", rather than any one of the many specific theorems that might help to articulate a given phenomenon. His book Principles of Random Walk, first published in 1964, remains a well-cited classic.
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Christian Guttmann
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1998-2002
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcher
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Christian Guttmann is an entrepreneur, business executive and scientist in Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, and Quantum AI. He is a German, Swedish and Australian citizen. He has been the vice president in Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Pegasystems responsible for the development of AI Agent Systems, Large Language Models and Generative AI. He is an adjunct associate professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia and Adjunct senior researcher at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Guttmann has edited and authored 7 books, several publications and patents in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He is a keynote speaker at international events, including CeBIT and is cited by MIT Sloan Management review and Wall Street Journal.
