About
Swedish chemist who the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1926. He helped develop the analytical ultracentrifugation technique to study colloids and proteins.
Before Fame
He studied biochemistry at Uppsala University.
Trivia
He had a unit of measurement, the svedberg (S), named in his honor.
Family Life
He was born in Fleräng, Valbo, Gävleborg, Sweden.
Associated With
His research on colloids provided evidence for Albert Einstein's theory of Brownian motion.
