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Nationality
  
Swedish

Alma mater
  
Name
  
Theodor Svedberg

Education
  
Fields
  
Doctoral students
  
Role
  
Chemist

Books
  
The Ultracentrifuge


Born
  
Theodor Svedberg30 August 1884Flerang, Valbo, Gavleborg, Sweden (
1884-08-30
)

Known for
  
analytical ultracentrifugationColloid 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
  
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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"

References

Theodor Svedberg Wikipedia


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