Astrid Cleve

Astrid Cleve (born January 22, 1875 in Uppsala , † April 8, 1968 ) was a Swedish botanist and chemist . She was the first woman in Sweden to receive a doctorate in a science discipline. Her botanical author abbreviation is A. Cleve .

Career

Astrid Cleve was born as the daughter of chemistry professor Per Teodor Cleve and his wife Alma Öbom. She received private home schooling and graduated from Uppsala High School in 1891 with a high school diploma. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in science at Uppsala University. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the germination of various Swedish plants. In 1898 she obtained a doctorate. Since Stockholm University was more open to the employment of female academics, she took up a position as a lecturer in chemistry there after completing her doctorate. During this time, she dealt particularly with lanthanides and selenium and published the results of her research in several journals. Due to her marriage to chemistry professor Hans von Euler-Chelpin , she gave up this job after four years. When this marriage ended in divorce after ten years, she first made a living as a teacher at a girls' high school. In 1918 she managed to get a position in forestry research . Her main interest here was initially the chemistry of lignin , which is a component of cellulose in the cell walls of plants. Her research activity then shifted to the geology of the Quaternary . Cleve paid special attention to fossil and recent diatoms .

Scientific achievement

Astrid Cleve contributed in the form of scientific publications in particular to a better knowledge of the chemistry of lignin and fossil and recent diatoms.

Personal

Astrid Cleve married the chemist Hans von Euler-Chelpin in 1902 . She then changed her name to Astrid Cleve von Euler. The ten-year marriage resulted in five children, including the Nobel Prize winner Ulf von Euler .

Appreciation

In 1955, in recognition of her research, she was awarded the title of Professor of Biology from Uppsala University .

Works (selection)

• The diatoms of Sweden and Finland , Cramer, 1968, Repr.
• What was de Svea Älv? , Almqvist & Wiksell, Norblad, 1957
• About some diatomite deposits and whitish mineral fine sediments from the southern Scandinavia , Almqvist & Wiksell, 1951
• Vad är Melosira moniliformis , Almqvist & Wiksell, 1943
• Bacillariaceen associations in northernmost Finland , Akad. Buchhandlung, 1939
• The pebble structures of the Täkernsee in Sweden , Almqvist & Wiksell, 1932

swell

• Renate Strohmeyer: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe . Verlag Harri Deutsch, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9 , p. 72 f.

supporting documents

1. ^ Astrid Cleve entry at IPNI