WH Brock, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002349
1859–1927 Swedish physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner who established the ionic theory of electrolytic dissociation and the concept of activation energy.
Keywords: ionic theory; activation energy; immunochemistry; origins of life; greenhouse effect
| Further Reading | |
| book Arrhenius SA (1966) "Nobel lecture". In: Nobel Lectures Chemistry 1901–1921. Amsterdam: Elsevier. | |
| book Arrhenius SA (1907) Immunochemistry. The Application of the Principles of Physical Chemistry to the Study of the Biological Antibodies. London: Macmillan. | |
| book Arrhenius SA (1908) Worlds in the Making: the Evolution of the Universe. London: Harpers & Bros. | |
| book Crawford E (1996) Arrhenius. From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect. Canton, MA: Science History Publications. | |
| book Partington JR (1961–70) A History of Chemistry, vol. 4, pp. 673–681. Basingstoke: Macmillan. | |
| book Snelders HAM (1970) "Svante Arrhenius". In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 1, pp. 296–302. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Walker J (1933) Arrhenius Memorial Lecture, Chemical Society Memorial Lectures 1914–1932, pp. 109–130. London: Chemical Society. | |
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