Svante Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
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Lived 1859–1927, aged 68Sweden
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He was the first to calculate that rising carbon dioxide would warm the planet — in 1896, before cars crowded the roads or smokestacks dotted every horizon. The math was correct; the century that followed proved it.
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Svante August Arrhenius was born in Sweden on 19 February 1859 and trained as a physicist, but his work bridged disciplines in ways that would define physical chemistry as a field. In 1903 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the first Swede to take home a Nobel in any category. Two years later he became director of the Nobel Institute and held the post until his death. His most prescient work applied physical chemistry to atmospheric science: he estimated how much warming could be expected from increased carbon dioxide in the air, laying groundwork that would become modern climate science. In…
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