Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum

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Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum (born March 12, 1862 in Kalmar , † September 23, 1933 in Djursholm ) was a Swedish chemist .

Life

Söderbaum studied chemistry at Uppsala University from 1879 and received his doctorate in 1888. He was then a private lecturer and from 1893 professor at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and in 1899 professor of agricultural chemistry at the agricultural research station of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. When it was converted into the central agricultural research institute, he became head of the chemical department in 1907 and remained so until 1923.

He initially dealt with platinum complexes (topic of his dissertation), then with organic chemistry and finally with agricultural chemistry (assimilation of phosphorus, nitrogen fertilizers). As a chemical historian, he dealt with Jöns Jacob Berzelius and published his letters, travel diaries and autobiographical notes on behalf of the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

From 1898 he was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , its president in 1912/13 and its secretary from 1923 to 1933. From 1900 he was on the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and from 1925 on the Council of the Nobel Foundation. He was also a member of the Royal Societies of Science in Uppsala and Gothenburg.

He was the father of actress Kristina Söderbaum .

Fonts

  • Berzelius . In Günther Bugge (ed.): The great book of chemists . Volume 1. Berlin 1929, Verlag Chemie 1979
  • Berzelius' Becoming and Growing 1779–1821 . 1899
  • Editor: Jacob Berzelius: Själfbiografiska anteckningar , 1901
  • Publisher: Jacob Berzelius: Reseanteckningar , 1903
  • Publisher: Jacob Berzelius : Bref, 5 volumes, 1912 to 1918

literature

personal data
SURNAME Söderbaum, Henrik Gustaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Squid
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1933
Place of death Djursholm