Speakers included Dr. Ian McDonald, Levente Erdeos ( architect, and former curator of San Michele ), the Swedish author Bengt Jangfeldt, Dr. Peter Cottino ( from Capri ), Mårten Lindståhl, Dr. Katriona Munthe-Lindgren, and Professor Alden Smith from the Department of Classics at

To the observations of Torell on glacial phenomena Nordenskiöld added the discovery at Bell Sound of remains of Tertiary plants, and on the return of the expedition he received the appointment of professor and curator of the mineralogical department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History ( Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet ).

He was then appointed professor, by royal decree of the 5th of December 1884, and was simultaneously made curator of the new “ Department of Archegoniates and Fossil Plants " at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

* 1974 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician ( Broder Daniel )

Swedish band Broder Daniel, who contributed three English language songs to the movie, released an EP titled Fucking Åmål.

Daniel Ekeroth argues that the blast beat was first performed by the Swedish D-beat group Asocial on their 1982 demo.

* 1976 – Daniel Tynell, Swedish cross-country skiier

* 1977 – Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer

** Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer

** Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish drummer

* December 11 – Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish NHL hockey player

* May 16 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist ( b. 1736 )

** Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, né Olof Daniel Westling, Swedish prince, married to Crown Princess Victoria

While they were in Australia Banks, the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander and the Finnish botanist Dr. Herman Spöring Jr. made the first major collection of Australian flora, describing many species new to science.

Nils Daniel Carl Bildt KCMG ( born 15 July 1949 ) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999.

Set on drafting highly-touted Swedish forwards Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Burke orchestrated several transactions to move up to the second and third overall picks, with which he chose both players.

The Swedish " Phosphorists " were influenced by the Romantic movement and their chief poet, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom produced many lyric poems.

In conjunction with the parish priest and naturalist Clas Bjerkander, Dahl, Johan Abraham, etymologist Leonard Gyllenhaal, chemist Johan Afzelius, Daniel Naezén and Olof Knös founded " The Swedish Topographic Society in Skara " on December 13, 1769.

She was married on 19 June 2010 to Daniel Westling, who was born on 15 September 1973 ( the same day that Carl Gustav ascended to the Swedish throne ).

Many other Swedish emigrants traveled with Daniel Lindström, including Erik Norelius, whose personal journals in part formed the basis of Vilhelm Moberg ’ s novels of the Swedish emigration to the United States, The Emigrants.

Such parquets en lozange were noted by the Swedish architect Daniel Cronström at Versailles and at the Grand Trianon in 1693.

On June 19, 2010, she married Daniel Westling who has now become Prince of Sweden. Haga Palace. On 17 August 2011, the Swedish royal court announced that Prince Daniel and Crown Princess Victoria were expecting their first child in March 2012.

Daniel Alfredsson ( born 11 December 1972 ) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player.

* Broder Daniel, a Swedish indie pop band

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Anders Celsius ( 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744 ) was a Swedish astronomer.

For years it was simply referred to as the Swedish thermometer.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

The Swedish Minister for Integration and Gender Equality, Nyamko Sabuni, was born in Burundi.

The musical was based on The Emigrants novels by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg.