LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.uppsala.se/

Population:
130,000

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
University of Uppsala	1477

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
MySQL	1995

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson	Inventor	25-Jan-1878	14-May-1975	Developed radio and television at GE and RCA
Ingmar Bergman	Film Director	14-Jul-1918	30-Jul-2007	Scenes from a Marriage
Hans Blix	Government	28-Jun-1928		Weapons inspector before Iraq War
Arvid Carlsson	Scientist	25-Jan-1923		Signal transduction in the nervous system
Anders Celsius	Astronomer	27-Nov-1701	25-Apr-1744	Astronomer, invented centigrade scale
Viveca Lindfors	Actor	29-Dec-1920	25-Oct-1995	Night Unto Night
Alva Myrdal	Politician	31-Jan-1902	1-Feb-1986	Swedish diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient
Torsten N. Wiesel	Scientist	3-Jun-1924		Neurophysiology of vision

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Anders Jonas Ångström	Physicist	13-Aug-1814	21-Jun-1874	Founder of spectroscopy
Robert Bárány	Doctor	22-Apr-1876	8-Apr-1936	Studied inner ear, equilibrium system
Anders Celsius	Astronomer	27-Nov-1701	25-Apr-1744	Astronomer, invented centigrade scale
Viveca Lindfors	Actor	29-Dec-1920	25-Oct-1995	Night Unto Night
Carolus Linnaeus	Botanist	23-May-1707	10-Jan-1778	Created a taxonomy of the species
Nathan Söderblom	Religion	15-Jan-1866	12-Jul-1931	Archbishop of Sweden
Arne Tiselius	Chemist	10-Aug-1902	29-Aug-1971	Electrophoresis

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