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. In 1903, he receive
Arrhenius in 1909
Lehrbuch der kosmischen Physik, 1903
Arrhenius family grave in Uppsala
Arrhenius at the first Solvay conference on chemistry in 1922 in Brussels
Dmitri Mendeleev
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-
Svante Arrhenius
…for his friends (Jacobus van 't Hoff, Wilhelm Ostwald, Theodore Richards) and to attempt to deny them to his enemies (Paul Ehrlich, Walther Nernst, Dmitri Mendeleev). In 1901 Arrhenius was elected to the Swedish Academy of Sciences, against strong opposition. In 1903 he became the first Swede to be awarded the Nobel…
Dmitri Mendeleev
Mendeleev's 1871 periodic table
Mendeleev, Alfred Werner, Adolf von Baeyer, and other prominent chemists
Mendeleev Medal