... August Arrhenius was born at Uppalsa, Sweden, on February 19, 1859 His intelligence and creativity were apperent nt from an early age--he taught himself to read when he was three Although credi ted with many scientific innovations, he remains best known for his ionic theory of solutions, For which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1903 Arrhenius ... best illustrations of the often bumpy path of the advancement of scientific knowledge is the story of Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius. When Arrhenius henius began his doctorate at the University of Uppsala around 1880, he chose t...

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Svante August Arrhenius was born in 1859 in Wijk, Sweden and became a founding father of physical chemistry later in life. During his lifetime, he married twice and had 2 sons and 2 daughters. His family later moved to Uppsala before he moved on to go to school in Stockholm. Arrhenius began his work with chemistry with the chemist Edlund. These two worked on electromotive force measurements ... became a professor teaching physics in Stockholm. Ostwald and van't Hoff are two other founding fathers of chemistry that Arrhenius earned the respect of. Arrhenius had to turn down a job that Ostwald ...

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