Theodor Svedberg

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Theodor Svedberg

Theodor Svedberg
Born 30 August 1884(1884-08-30)
Fleräng, Valbo, Gävleborg, Sweden
Died February 25, 1971 (aged 86)
Kloppaberg, Sweden
Residence Flag of Sweden Sweden
Nationality Flag of Sweden Sweden
Field Biochemistry
Institutions University of Uppsala
Alma mater University of Uppsala, Gustaf Werner Institute for Nuclear Chemistry
Notable students   Arne Tiselius
Known for analytical ultracentrifugation
Notable prizes Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1926)
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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 this work, he developed the technique of analytical ultracentrifugation, and demonstrated its utility in distinguishing pure proteins one from another.

The unit svedberg (symbol S), a unit of time amounting to 10-13 s or 100 fs, is named after him.

  • Stig Claesson; Kai O. Pedersen. "The Svedberg. 1884-1971". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 18: 594-627.. 


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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Theodor Svedberg (1926) • Heinrich Wieland (1927) • Adolf Windaus (1928) • Arthur Harden / Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1929) • Hans Fischer (1930) • Carl Bosch / Friedrich Bergius (1931) • Irving Langmuir (1932) • Harold Urey (1934) • Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Irène Joliot-Curie (1935) • Peter Debye (1936) • Walter Haworth / Paul Karrer (1937) • Richard Kuhn (1938) • Adolf Butenandt / Lavoslav Ružička (1939) • George de Hevesy (1943) • Otto Hahn (1944) • Artturi Virtanen (1945) • James B. Sumner / John Northrop / Wendell Meredith Stanley (1946) • Robert Robinson (1947) • Arne Tiselius (1948) • William Giauque (1949) • Otto Diels / Kurt Alder (1950)


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