Svante Arrhenius
1859 – 1927
Reaction rates versus temperature; Nobel 1903.
A Swedish physical chemist, Arrhenius gave us the equation relating reaction rate to temperature in 1889 — the rule of thumb that many reactions roughly double in rate every 10 °C. He won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
He was also the first to quantify how carbon dioxide warms the planet. The reaction-rate tools here run on the Arrhenius equation.
Portrait: a stylized blueprint-line rendering, not a photograph.
Contributions in the toolbox
- 1887
Ionic dissociation theory — concentration becomes physical chemistry.
→ Dilution (C₁V₁ = C₂V₂) - 1889
Activation energy and the rate equation.
→ Arrhenius Rate Ratio