| Authorised form of name | Klingenstierna; Samuel (1698 - 1765) |
| Dates | 1698 - 1765 |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Place of birth | Near Linkoping, Sweden |
| Date of birth | ? November 1765 |
| Place of death | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Date of death | ? November 1765 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Baptism:
18 August 1698 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Optics |
| Activity | Education:
School at Linkoping; Uppsala
Career:
Secretary to the Swedish Treasury; travelled to Marburg, Basel, Paris and London; Professor of Mathematics, Uppsala (1728-1750), Professor of Physics (1750); Tutor to the Crown Prince (1754-1764); Royal Counsellor; quarrelled with John Dollond (FRS 1761) who used his work on achromatic refraction without acknowledgement
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 23/04/1730 |
| Proposer | Martin Folkes |
| Abraham De Moivre |
| John Machin |
| Relationships | Son of Major Zacharias Klingenstierna and his wife, Helena Maria Gyllenadler |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; SMK
Authority:
Baptism date from SMK |
| Code | NA7310 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RBO/15/82 | Two theorems for quadrature of the circle by Klingenstierna, Professor of Mathematics at Uppsala | 1731 |
| L&P/4/62 | Paper, 'Of the aberration of light reflected at spherical superficies and lenses' by Sanuel Klingenstierna | 20 April 1760 |
| L&P/4/66 | Paper, 'An account of Klingenstierna's paper' by Robert More | 16 April 1761 |