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Arne Tiselius



Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
BornAugust 10, 1902
Stockholm, Sweden
DiedOctober 29 1971 (aged 69)
Uppsala, Sweden
Residence Sweden
Nationality Sweden
FieldChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Uppsala
Alma materUniversity of Uppsala
Academic advisor  Theodor Svedberg
Known forElectrophoresis
Notable prizes Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1948)

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (10 August 1902 – 29 October 1971) was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948.

Biography

He was born in Stockholm. Following the death of his father, the family moved to Gothenburg where he went to school, and after graduation at the local "Realgymnasium" in 1921, he studied at the University of Uppsala, specializing in chemistry. He became research assistant in The Svedberg's laboratory in 1925 and obtained his doctor's degree in 1930 on the moving-boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins. From then to 1935 he published a number of papers on diffusion and adsorption in naturally occurring base-exchanging zeolites, and these studies were continued during a year's visit to H.S. Taylor's laboratory in Princeton with support of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. On his return to Uppsala he resumed his interest in proteins, and the application of physical methods to biochemical problems. This led to a much-improved method of electrophoretic analysis which he refined in subsequent years.

Tiselius took an active part in the reorganization of scientific research in Sweden in the years following World War II, and was President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 1951-1955.

He was married, with two children. He died of a heart attack 29 October 1971 in Uppsala.

References

  • R. A. Kekwick; Kai O. Pedersen (1974). "Arne Tiselius. 1902-1971". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 20: 401-428.
  • R. A. Kyle, M. A. Shampo (2005). "Arne Tiselius--father of electrophoresis.". Mayo Clin Proc. 80 (3): 302.
  • (1937) "A new apparatus for electrophoretic analysis of colloidal mixtures". Transactions of the Faraday Society 33: 524.
  • A Tiselius (1930). "The moving-boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis Ser. IV, Vol. 7 (4).
  • A Tiselius (1968). "Reflections from Both Sides of the Counter". Annual Review of Biochemistry 27: 1-24.
 
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