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Theodor Svedberg

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Chemistry

Swedish chemist who built the ultracentrifuge in the 1920s, extending the centrifuge principle to far higher speeds than any device before it; his first version, completed in 1924, reached about 5,000 times the force of gravity, and a 1925 to 26 version reached roughly 100,000 times gravity. He used it to measure the molecular weights of proteins and other large colloidal particles directly for the first time, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Birth Year
1884 1
Field
Physical and colloid chemistry 1
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Invented

Centrifuge, Instruments

Extended the centrifuge principle to far higher speeds in the 1920s with the ultracentrifuge, reaching roughly 100,000 times gravity by 1925 to 26 and enabling the first direct measurement of protein molecular weights; awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the work.

Source Theodor Svedberg (Wikipedia)
Ultracentrifuge, Instruments

Svedberg developed the ultracentrifuge in 1926 to study colloids and macromolecules by sedimentation, work cited in his 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Works In

Chemistry, Disciplines
Source Theodor Svedberg (Wikipedia)
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1. Theodor Svedberg (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    Theodor Svedberg (30 August 1884-25 February 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge.
  • Invented: Centrifuge
  • Works In: Chemistry
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