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Svante Arrhenius

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Also Known As Arrhenius · Svante Arrhenius
Climatologist

A Swedish physical chemist who, wondering what caused the ice ages, spent a year of hand calculation working out how carbon dioxide levels set the planet's temperature, publishing in 1896 the first quantitative version of the greenhouse effect. His estimate of the warming from doubled carbon dioxide sits remarkably near the modern range, though he guessed the change would take millennia rather than a century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1859-02-19 1
Birth Year
1859 1
Death Date
1927-10-02 1
Death Year
1927 1
Birthplace
Balingsta parish 2
Birthplace
Wik Castle 2
Birthplace
Wik Castle, near Uppsala, Sweden 1
Death Place
Stockholm 2
Nationality
Swedish 1
Defining Contribution
In 1896 published the first quantitative calculation of how changing atmospheric carbon dioxide changes Earth's surface temperature, the founding computation of greenhouse climate science; won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the theory of electrolytic dissociation. 1
Connections

Anticipated By

Eunice Newton Foote, Scientists

Foote's 1856 experiments anticipated the carbon dioxide warming Arrhenius quantified in 1896; no line of influence is documented, and her priority was recognized only on the paper's modern rediscovery.

Source Eunice Newton Foote (Wikipedia)

Associated With

Greenhouse Effect, Concepts

His 1896 paper is the first quantitative treatment of greenhouse warming.

Source Svante Arrhenius (Wikipedia)

Works In

Climatology, Disciplines
Source Svante Arrhenius (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

Sweden

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Source Wikidata: Svante Arrhenius
Sources
1. Svante Arrhenius (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Quote, Lead section
Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry.
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2. Svante Arrhenius (Wikidata)
  • P20 (place of death)
    died in Stockholm
  • Wikidata item aliases (en) [1]
    also known as Arrhenius
  • Wikidata item aliases (en) [2]
    also known as Svante Arrhenius
  • P27 (country of citizenship) [1]
    citizen of Sweden
  • P19 (place of birth) [1]
    born in Wik Castle
  • P19 (place of birth) [2]
    born in Balingsta parish
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Wikidata: Svante Arrhenius
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