Nationality Swedish Alma mater Uppsala University Name Theodor Svedberg Education Uppsala University | Fields Biochemistry Doctoral students Arne Tiselius Role Chemist Books The Ultracentrifuge | |
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Born Theodor Svedberg
30 August 1884
Flerang, Valbo, Gavleborg, Sweden ( 1884-08-30 ) Known for analytical ultracentrifugation
Colloid chemistry Notable awards Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1926)
Franklin Medal (1949)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1944) Died February 25, 1971, Kopparberg, Sweden Children Hillevi Svedberg, Elias Svedberg Awards Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Franklin Medal Similar People Arne Tiselius, Andrea Andreen, Herbert Freundlich | ||
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Theodor ("The") Svedberg (30 August 1884 – 25 February 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, active at Uppsala University.
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Early life and education
Theodor Svedberg was born in Gavleborg, Sweden. He was the son of Augusta Alstermark and Elias Svedberg. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1905, his master's degree in 1907, and in 1908, he earned his Ph.D.
Research
Svedberg's work with colloids supported the theories of Brownian motion put forward by Albert Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski. During this work, he developed the technique of analytical ultracentrifugation, and demonstrated its utility in distinguishing pure proteins one from another.
Awards and honours
The unit svedberg (symbol S), a unit of time amounting to 10−13 s or 100 fs, is named after him, as well as the The Svedberg Laboratory in Uppsala.
Svedberg's candidacy for the Royal Society reads:
"distinguished for his work in physical and colloid chemistry and the development of the ultracentrifuge"