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Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius Bio

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Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius:

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate.

Birth:

August 10, 1902 in Stockholm, Sweden

Death:

October 29, 1971 in Uppsala, Sweden

Claim to Fame:

Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his study on the separation of colloids or proteins through electrophoresis. Electrophoresis is a device to separate and measure charged particles through a stationary liquid in an electric field. He was also first to develop synthetic blood plasma.

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