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    Svante August Arrhenius (/əˈriːniəs, əˈreɪniəs/ ə-REE-nee-əs, -⁠RAY-, Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ aˈrěːnɪɵs]; 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist...
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  • chemistry, the Arrhenius equation is a formula for the temperature dependence of reaction rates. The equation was proposed by Svante Arrhenius in 1889, based...
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  • constants Arrhenius plot Arrhenius (lunar crater), named for Svante Arrhenius 5697 Arrhenius, main-belt asteroid, named for Svante Arrhenius Arrhenius (Martian...
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    had a significant effect. The effect was more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, who made the first quantitative prediction of global warming...
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    "activation energy" was introduced in 1889 by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Although less commonly used, activation energy also applies to nuclear...
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  • 1504 and 1512 Svante Sture, Count of Stegeholm (1517–67), his grandson Svante Arrhenius a Swedish chemist Svante Stenbock (1578–1632) Svante Bielke, Lord...
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  • years after his sister Amanda. He is named after an ancestral cousin, Svante Arrhenius, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. Before taking a course...
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  • aqueous solution and led to Arrhenius receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903. As defined by Arrhenius: An Arrhenius acid is a substance that ionises...
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    Bergman, diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, chemists Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Svante Arrhenius, actress Viveca Lindfors, and singer Malena Ernman. Uppsala was originally...
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    This crater was named after Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius by the IAU in 1970. The outer wall of Arrhenius has been somewhat worn and eroded due to a...
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    In 1884, Svante Arrhenius attributed the properties of acidity to hydrogen ions (H+), later described as protons or hydrons. An Arrhenius acid is a substance...
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    originally proposed by G.-F. Rouelle in the mid-18th century. In 1884, Svante Arrhenius proposed that a base is a substance which dissociates in aqueous solution...
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  • be untied or loosened".[citation needed] In his 1884 dissertation, Svante Arrhenius put forth his explanation of solid crystalline salts disassociating...
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    had a significant effect. The effect was more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, who made the first quantitative prediction of global warming...
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    arguments went back and forth until Svante Arrhenius gave the theory its modern treatment and designation. Arrhenius argued against abiogenesis on the basis...
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  • came with the research of Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius, who in the late 19th century, introduced the Arrhenius theory, providing a theoretical framework...
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    and named this increase alkalinity.[citation needed] Also in 1884, Svante Arrhenius submitted his PhD theses in which he advocated the existence of ions...
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    may have caused climatic changes in the past, including ice ages. Svante Arrhenius noted that water vapour in air continuously varied, but the CO2 concentration...
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    forerunner to the world's first widely used battery, the zinc–carbon cell. Svante Arrhenius published his thesis in 1884 on Recherches sur la conductibilité galvanique...
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    evaluations of the radiative behavior of grey bodies. For example, Svante Arrhenius applied the recent theoretical developments to his 1896 investigation...
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  • 1902 article attributes to Swedish Nobel laureate (for chemistry) Svante Arrhenius a theory that coal combustion could eventually lead to a degree of...
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    and cation as ions that are attracted to the respective electrodes. Svante Arrhenius put forth, in his 1884 dissertation, the explanation of the fact that...
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  • examples of immunochemistry is the Wasserman test to detect syphilis. Svante Arrhenius was also one of the pioneers in the field; he published Immunochemistry...
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    1902 article, attributed to Swedish Nobel laureate (for chemistry) Svante Arrhenius, presents a theory that coal combustion could eventually lead to a...
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    concept of atomism to chemistry. A major example was the ion theory of Svante Arrhenius which anticipated ideas about atomic substructure that did not fully...
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  • (1786–1853): French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician. Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927): Swedish scientist and the first Swedish Nobel Prize winner...
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    Charles Albert Gobat 1903 Henri Becquerel; Pierre Curie; Marie Curie Svante Arrhenius Niels Ryberg Finsen Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Randal Cremer 1904 Lord Rayleigh...
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  • risen over the previous 50 years. This theory, earlier proposed by Svante Arrhenius, has been called the Callendar effect. Callendar thought this warming...
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    Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. p. 594. ISBN 978-0-87975-307-8. Svante Arrhenius (I859-I927), recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (I903), was...
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    calculations by Svante Arrhenius for CO2 warming were wrong; though subsequent work in following decades eventually vindicated Arrhenius. The experiment...
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