Scandinavian Scientist Conference

The Scandinavian Scientist Conferences (Nordiske Naturforskermøde/Nordiska Naturforskarmöte or Naturforskerselskabet/Naturforskarsällskapet, English:Scandinavian Association of Naturalists) was a series of meetings 1839–1936 for scientists and physicists from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, later also Finland and Iceland, in the era Scandinavism.

The scientific community in Scandinavia were small and scattered, but collectively they had by the 1830s attained the critical mass for meeting at conferences.

The inspiration came from Germany, where the scientists since 1822 had held conferences to improve communication in the fragmented geopolitical landscape.

The creation of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831) drew on the same source of inspiration.

From the start, the Scandinavian Scientist Conferences became an outlet for important scientific results.

The banquet at the 1847 meeting, held in Roskilde. The president of the meeting Hans Christian Ørsted is speaking. Christopher Hansteen , who presided the 1844 meeting in Oslo, is standing right in front of the speaker. Half-way standing to the left is Japetus Steenstrup . Wall painting by Erik Henningsen in the aula of the University of Copenhagen .