Arne Tiselius

Infobox Scientist
name = Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
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birth_date = August 10, 1902
birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden
death_date = death date and age|1971|10|29|1902|8|10
death_place = Uppsala, Sweden
residence = Sweden
nationality = Sweden
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field = Chemistry
work_institutions = University of Uppsala
alma_mater = University of Uppsala
doctoral_advisor = Theodor Svedberg
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known_for = Electrophoresis
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prizes = Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1948)
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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

*cite journal
author = R. A. Kekwick; Kai O. Pedersen
title = Arne Tiselius. 1902-1971
journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
year = 1974
volume = 20
issue =
pages = 401–428
url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0080-4606%28197412%2920%3C401%3AAT1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1974.0018
*cite journal
author = R. A. Kyle, M. A. Shampo
title = Arne Tiselius--father of electrophoresis
journal = Mayo Clin Proc.
year = 2005
volume = 80
issue = 3
pages = 302
url = http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/pdf%2F8003%2F8003sv%2Epdf
*cite journal
author = Tiselius, Arne
title = A new apparatus for electrophoretic analysis of colloidal mixtures
journal = Transactions of the Faraday Society
year = 1937
volume = 33
issue =
pages = 524
url =
doi = 10.1039/tf9373300524
*cite journal
author = A Tiselius
title = The moving-boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins
journal = Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis
year = 1930
volume = Ser. IV, Vol. 7
issue = 4
pages =
url =
*cite journal
author = A Tiselius
title = Reflections from Both Sides of the Counter
journal = Annual Review of Biochemistry
year = 1968
volume = 27
issue =
pages = 1–24
url = http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.bi.37.070168.000245
doi = 10.1146/annurev.bi.37.070168.000245
*Citation
id = PMID:7685077
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7685077
last=Putnam
first=F W
publication-date=1993
year=1993
title=Alpha-, beta-, gamma-globulin--Arne Tiselius and the advent of electrophoresis
volume=36
issue=3
periodical=Perspect. Biol. Med.
pages=323–37
*Citation
id = PMID:3045854
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3045854
last=Kay
first=L E
publication-date=1988
year=1988
title=Laboratory technology and biological knowledge: the Tiselius electrophoresis apparatus, 1930-1945
volume=10
issue=1
periodical=History and philosophy of the life sciences
pages=51–72
*Citation
id = PMID:4577171
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4577171
last=Hjertén
first=S
publication-date=1973 Jun 15
year=1973
title=Dedication to Professor Arne Tiselius
volume=209
issue=
periodical=Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.
pages=5–7
*Citation
id = PMID:4556330
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4556330
last=Hertén
first=S
publication-date=1972 Jun
year=1972
title=Arne Tiselius. 1902-1971
volume=39
issue=5
periodical=J. Ultrastruct. Res.
pages=624–8
*Citation
id = PMID:4552643
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4552643
last=Hjertén
first=S
publication-date=1972 Feb 23
year=1972
title=Arne Tiselius 1902-1971
volume=65
issue=2
periodical=J. Chromatogr.
pages=345–8

External links

* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1948/tiselius-lecture.html Nobel Lecture] "Electrophoresis and Adsorption Analysis as Aids in Investigations of Large Molecular Weight Substances and Their Breakdown Products" from Nobelprize.org website
* [http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1948/tiselius-bio.html Biography] Biography from Nobelprize.org website