Lund University

Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden. The university was founded in 1666 and is the second oldest within Sweden's present borders.

Notable people connected to Lund University

• Janne Rydberg discovered the Rydberg formula at Lund University in 1888
• Medical ultrasonography in echocardiography of the heart was pioneered by Inge Edler and Carl Hellmuth Hertz in cooperation between the department of cardiology and the department of electrical measurements in 1953
• Per Georg Scheutz graduated as a student of law in 1805 before moving to Stockholm and turning to mechanical engineering
• Martin Wiberg, inventor, invented a logarithmic table generating machine in 1875
• Lars Hörmander, mathematician, awarded the Fields medal in 1962.
• Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Laureate in medicine or physiology 2000
• Elis Strömgren (1870-1947), astronomer; Professor and Director of the Observatory at Copenhagen University. Father of the astronomer Bengt Strömgren.
• Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), mycologist, (student in Lund 1811, professor in Lund 1824, from 1834 professor at Uppsala University)
• Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694), German jurist, political scientist and historian (professor in Lund 1670-1677)
• Knut Wicksell (1851-1926), economist (professor in Lund 1900-1916)
• Axel Möller (1830-1896), astronomer (Ph.D. 1853, professor 1863-1895)
• Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845-1912), mathematician and physicist (Ph.D. 1868, professor from 1878)
• Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), professor at Uppsala University, Nobel Prize in Physics 1924. (Ph.D. 1911)
• Boris Smeds (b. 1944), radio engineer at ESA
• Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846), writer, professor of Greek, later Bishop of Växjö, Member of the Swedish Academy
• Otto Lindblad (1809-1864), composer
• Bengt Lidner (1757-1793), poet
• Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), poet, critic and philosopher
• Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (1894-1954) studied in Lund from 1912 until receiving his Licentiate in Philosophy in 1930. He then wrote the world-famous book The Long Ships.
• Hans Alfredson (b. 1931), writer, entertainer and film director, former head of Skansen.

Honorary doctorates

• In 1999 United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was made an Honorary Doctor of Law.