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Svante Arrhenius Bio

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Svante Arrhenius

Svante Arrhenius

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Svante Arrhenius:

Svante Arrhenius was a famous Swedish chemist and physicist.

Birth:

February 19, 1859 in Vik, Sweden

Death:

October 2, 1927 in Stockholm, Sweden

Claim to Fame:

Svante August Arrhenius was a famous Swedish physicist and chemist. He is considered to be one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. Arrhenius is known for the Arrhenius equation and for winning the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the theory of electrolytic dissociation.

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