KTH Royal Institute of Technology Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Salomon August Andrée

Arctic explorer

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Ernst Alexanderson

Inventor & early pioneer in radio/television technology

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Joe Armstrong

Co-creator of the programming language Erlang

MSc/PhD?

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Karl Johan Åström

Control engineer; IEEE Medal of Honor recipient

PhD

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Kurt Atterberg

Composer

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1911

Peter Arvai

Co-founder & CEO of Prezi

Master’s degree

2006

Börje Ekholm

CEO of Investor AB and later CEO of Ericsson

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Christer Fuglesang

ESA astronaut; first Swedish citizen in space

PhD (Physics)

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Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder & CEO of Databricks

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Ivar Jacobson

Creator of sequence diagrams and UML manager

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Ivar Kreuger

Industrialist

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Gustaf Larson

Co-founder of Volvo

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Dolph Lundgren

Actor and martial artist

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Carl Munters

Inventor

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Immanuel Nobel

Inventor & industrialist

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Kristin Persson

Materials scientist; founder of The Materials Project

PhD

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Max Tegmark

Physicist & professor (cosmology) at MIT

PhD

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Fredrik Ljungström

Inventor; major figure in Swedish engineering

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Maja Reichard

Paralympian swimmer

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Greta Woxén

First female civil engineer in Sweden (graduated 1928)

Engineering degree

1928