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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Svante Arrhenius

Svante Arrhenius
Born 19 February 1859
Wik Castle, Sweden
Died 2 October 1927 (aged 68)
Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Fields Physics, chemistry
Institutions Royal Institute of Technology
Alma mater Uppsala University
Stockholm University
Doctoral advisor Per Teodor Cleve, Erik Edlund
Doctoral students Oskar Benjamin Klein
Known for Arrhenius equation
Theory of ionic dissociation
Acid-base theory
Notable awards Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1903)
Franklin Medal (1920)

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