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Svante Arrhenius

A man with a neatly groomed beard and mustache, dressed in formal attire, stands against a dark background, exuding an air of scholarly gravitas.

Swedish chemist who won the 1903 Nobel Prize for his theory of ionic dissociation and later sat on the Nobel committees for both chemistry and physics. He was a quiet but consistent obstacle to Einstein's recognition, drafting the confidential 1921 memo that argued relativity belonged to philosophy rather than physics and steered the committee toward the photoelectric paper instead.

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