Theodor Svedberg, helped to turn the arcane field of colloid chemistry into a vigorous and productive field of study. In so doing, he developed the ultracentrifuge , one of the most basic and useful tools in the modern biomedical laboratory, and an...

Theodor Svedberg, helped to turn the arcane field of colloid chemistry into a vigorous and productive field of study. In so doing, he developed the ultracentrifuge, one of the most basic and useful tools in the modern biomedical laboratory, and an...

Svedberg was raised by a civil engineer who shared his love of nature with his son. He studied chemistry in school because he believed many unsolved problems in biology could be explained as chemical events. As a scientist he became interested in the...

1884-1971 Swedish physical chemist whose researches on colloids, biological molecules, and radiochemistry significantly affected both theoretical and applied chemistry. In order to investigate the behavior of very small particles, Svedberg invented the...

Theodor (The) Svedberg (August 30, 1884 – February 25, 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate. His work with colloids supported the theories of Brownian motion put forward by Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski. During...