ARRHENIUS, Svante August (1859 – 1927)
1859 – 1927
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Photogravure Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. Leipzig. · Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Band 69, 1909. · Public domain
1884 CE
#14278
Recherches sur la conductibilité galvanique des electrolytes. 1 & 2.
Arrhenius first published the theory of electrolytic dissociation in his doctoral thesis of 1884. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the a…
1896 CE
#13046
Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche.
Arrhenius used basic principles of physical chemistry to estimate the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for the Earth's increasing surface temperature, the "greenhouse effect."
1907 CE
#8152
Das Werden der Welten. Mit Unterstützung des Verfassers aus dem schwedischen übersetzt von L. Bamberger.
In this work Arrhenius predicted the possibility of man-made global warming. His prediction that significant global warming would take ~3000 years to develop is now recognized as a substantial underestimate due in par…
1907 CE
#2564.1
Immunochemistry. The application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies.
Arrhenius defined immunochemistry, and laid out its frontiers.