Famous People with Name Svante

Svante August Arrhenius            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Svante August Arrhenius: a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. The Arrhenius equation and the lunar crater Arrhenius are named after him.

Svante Pääbo            Origin/Culture/Country:

Svante Pääbo: is a biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden and earned his PhD from Uppsala University in 1986. Since 1997, he has been director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary

Svante Elis Strömgren            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Svante Elis Strömgren: was a Swedish-Danish astronomer.Strömgren worked in a variety of fields but was particularly interested in theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics, publishing works on the origin and orbits of comets. He also worked on the calculations for Jens Olsen's World Clock after 1928.His spouse, the dentist and writer Hedvig Lidforss (1877-1967), was daughter of the philologist Edvard Lidforss in Lund, and sister of the publicist and botanist Bengt Lidforss. Elis Strömgren's son was the astronomer Bengt Strömgren, who succeeded his father in Copenhagen in 1940.