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
Ludwig Boltzmann
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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explanation of the second l
Svante Arrhenius
…from the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which enabled him to study with Ostwald in Riga and Leipzig, with Friedrich Kohlrausch in Würzburg, Germany, with Ludwig Boltzmann in Graz, Austria, and with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in Amsterdam. In 1889, while carrying out research with Ostwald at Leipzig University, Arrhenius…
Boltzmann in 1902
Ludwig Boltzmann and co-workers in Graz, 1887: (standing, from the left) Nernst, Streintz, Arrhenius, Hiecke, (sitting, from the left) Aulinger, Ettingshausen, Boltzmann, Klemenčič, Hausmanninger
Boltzmann's 1898 I2 molecule diagram showing atomic "sensitive region" (α, β) overlap
Boltzmann's bust in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of Vienna