The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903

Svante August Arrhenius

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903 was awarded to Svante August Arrhenius "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation"

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