Claude Pouillet
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Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet was a French physicist and a professor of physics at the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Pouillet pyrheliometer, 1863
Pouillet Tangent Galvanometer on display at Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
Svante Arrhenius
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Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903, becoming the first Swedish Nobel laureate. In 1905, he became the director of the Nobel Institute, where he remained until his death.
Lehrbuch der kosmischen Physik, 1903
Arrhenius family grave in Uppsala
This 1902 article attributes to Arrhenius a theory that coal combustion could cause a degree of global warming eventually leading to human extinction.