Arrhenius, Svante

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Arrhenius, Svante
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(1859–1927). A native of Sweden, he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1903. He is best known for his fundamental investigations on electrolytic dissociation of compounds in water and other solvents, and for his basic equation stating the increase in the rate of a chemical reaction with rise in temperature:dlnkdT=ART2in which k is the specific reaction velocity, T is the absolute temperature, A is a constant usually referred to as the energy of activation of the reaction, and R is the gas-law constant.