Arne Tiselius

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Arne Tiselius, 1948

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (born August 10, 1902 in Stockholm , † October 29, 1971 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel Prize winner .

Life

Tiselius went to school in Gothenburg , where he graduated from the Realgymnasium in 1921 . He then began to study chemistry at Uppsala University and was appointed research assistant in Theodor Svedberg's laboratory in 1925 . In 1930 Tiselius received his doctorate with the topic "The Moving Boundary Method for Studying the Electrophoresis of Proteins" and was appointed lecturer in chemistry (assistant professor).

In 1931-1935 Tiselius published a series of papers on diffusion and adsorption in naturally occurring, base-exchanging zeolites . This research he conducted in Princeton on, where he himself as a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation for a year at the Laboratory of Hugh Stott Taylor was staying. Encouraged by the exchange with US biochemists, he published a paper on electrophoresis on his return to Uppsala (published in Transactions of the Faraday Society, 33 (1937) 524 ).

In 1938 a professorship was set up especially for Tiselius, which was only made possible by a donation to the university. From then on, Tiselius worked at the Faculty of Physical Chemistry with Theodor Svedberg. In 1946, biochemistry was set up as an independent faculty, which moved into a new building between 1950 and 1952. Under the later direction of Tiselius, the faculty contributed to the development and improvement of a number of biochemical methods, such as electrophoresis, ( partition ) chromatography and gel permeation chromatography . 1948 Tiselius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption in the analysis , especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of blood serum - proteins ".

Act

Tiselius took an active part in the reorganization of science research in Sweden after the Second World War. He was chairman of the Swedish Research Council (1946-1950) and chairman of the Research Council of the Swedish Cancer Society (1951-1955). Also from 1951 to 1955 he was President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and from 1947 Vice President of the Nobel Foundation , of which he became President in 1960. From 1946 he was a member of the Nobel Committee . In 1961 he gave the Paul Karrer Lecture .

In 1949 Tiselius was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 1953 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1955 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter T. (PDF; 432 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter T. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 8, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Tiselius, Arne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tiselius, Arne Wilhelm Kaurin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate in chemistry (1948)
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1971
Place of death Uppsala