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Events on Sunday 2 October 1927 1
1859 – 1927Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927)Died 2 October 1927, aged 68Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish chemist who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electrolytic dissociation. In 1896 he made one of the first calculations of how carbon dioxide warms the Earth.