Svante August Arrhenius

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(1859 - 1927)
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903 was awarded to Svante August Arrhenius in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation.
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Arrhenius began school at the age of eight, when he entered the fifth-grade class at the Cathedral School in Uppsala. After graduating in 1876, Arrhenius enrolled at the University of Uppsala. At Uppsala, Arrhenius concentrated on mathematics, chemistry, and physics and passed the candidate's examination for the bachelor's degree in 1878. He then began a graduate program in physics at Uppsala, but left after three years of study. He was said to be dissatisfied with his physics advisor, Tobias Thalen, and felt no more enthusiasm for the only advisor available in chemistry, Per Theodor Cleve. As a result, he obtained permission to do his doctoral research in absentia with the physicist Eric Edlund at the Physical Institute of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. (Notable twentieth century scientists, Emily J. McMurray, ed., 1., New York : Gale Research, 1995, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247039444 )
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https://chemistry.library.nd.edu/resources/genealogy/chemistry/documents/ArrheniusSA.pdf
http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00004828
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