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Theodor Svedberg
Theodor Svedburg was born in the mid-1800s in Fleräng, Valbo to his parents, Elias Svedberg and Augusta Alstermark. With his family suffering finacially, Svedberg still attended Köping School, Orebro High School, and Gothenburg Modern School. After graduation, he attended Uppsala University in January 1904 to gain his bachelor of Arts, master's, and doctorate in philosophy. Svedburg had a total of twelve children and was married four times. In 1905, he took the position of an assistant at Chemical Institute at Uppsala and was upgraded to lecturer in chemistry. He then was elected as a professor of physical chemistry, then emeritus, and finally Director of the Gustaf Werner Institute for Nuclear Chemistry.

Svedberg had many accomplishments in the field of chemistry. This includes his book publications, such as Colloid Chemistry and The Ultracentrifuge. Also, he was awarded with many medals for cultivating his work in disperse systems, one of htem being the Nobel Prize he was given in 1926. Other awards received were the John Ericsson Medal, the Berzelius Medal, and the Medal of the Franklin Institute. He gave convincing evidence of some of Einstein's work as well. Some of his controversial works were with the applications of colloids in medicine. However, his work is still highly valued, especially his scientific journals on high-molecular solutions, nuclear chemistry, and radiation biology.