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Svante August Arrhenius

Her father is named after famous Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. 👨‍🔬

December 6, 2022

Her father is named after famous Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. 👨‍🔬

Svante August Arrhenius

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Svante August Arrhenius

Swedish chemist

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Svante August Arrhenius was a Nobel-Prize winning Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903, becoming the first Swedish Nobel laureate, and in 1905 became director of the Nobel Institute where he remained until his death. His lasting contributions to science are exemplified and memorialized by the Arrhenius equation, Arrhenius definition of an acid, lunar crater Arrhenius, the mountain of Arrheniusfjellet and the Arrhenius Labs at Stockholm University, all named after him. He was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide increase Earth's surface temperature through the Arrhenius equation, leading David Keeling to conclude that human-caused carbon dioxide emissions are large enough to cause global warming.

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