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{{Short description|Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (1902–1971)}}

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• Björkénska priset (1940)
• Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1948)
• Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1949)
• Centenary Prize (1953)
• Franklin Medal (1955)
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1957){edih}|religion = |footnotes =

}}File:Arne Tiselius' magnifying glass at the Nobel Museum (51978).jpg|thumb|upright|Tiselius' magnifying glass on display at the Nobel Prize MuseumNobel Prize MuseumArne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (10 August 1902 â€“ 29 October 1971) was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins."JOURNAL, Kekwick, R. A., Pedersen, K. O., 10.1098/rsbm.1974.0018, Arne Tiselius 1902-1971, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 20, 401–428, 1974, 11615762, KYLE > FIRST1 = R. A. FIRST2 = M. A., Arne Tiselius—father of electrophoresis, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 80, 3, 302, 2005, 15757008, JOURNAL, Tiselius, A., 10.1039/tf9373300524, A new apparatus for electrophoretic analysis of colloidal mixtures, Transactions of the Faraday Society, 33, 524–1933, 1937, JOURNAL, A Tiselius, The moving-boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins, Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 1930, Ser. IV, Vol. 7, 4, JOURNAL, Tiselius, A., 10.1146/annurev.bi.37.070168.000245, Reflections from Both Sides of the Counter, Annual Review of Biochemistry, 37, 1–24, 1968, 4875715, PUTNAM > FIRST1 = F. W., Alpha-, beta-, gamma-globulin—Arne Tiselius and the advent of electrophoresis, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 36, 3, 323–337, 1993, 7685077, 10.1353/pbm.1993.0030, 1572611, KAY > FIRST1 = L. E., Laboratory technology and biological knowledge: The Tiselius electrophoresis apparatus, 1930–1945, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 10, 1, 51–72, 1988, 3045854, JOURNAL, Hjertén, S., 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1973.tb47513.x, Dedication to Professor Arne Tiselius, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 209, 1, 5–7, 1973, 4577171, 1973NYASA.209....5H, 26384103, JOURNAL, 10.1016/S0022-5320(72)90126-8 first1 = S., Arne Tiselius. 1902-1971, Journal of Ultrastructure Research, 39, 5, 624–628, 1972, 4556330, HJERTéN > FIRST1 = S., Arne Tiselius 1902–1971, Journal of Chromatography, 65, 2, 345–348, 1972, 4552643, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948. Nobelprize.org. Retrieved on 2017-10-02.

Education

Tiselius 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 Uppsala University, specializing in chemistry.

Career and research

Tiselius became a research assistant at Theodor Svedberg's laboratory in 1925 and obtained his doctoral 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 continued during a year's visit to Hugh Stott Taylor's laboratory in Princeton University 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 chairman of the board for the Nobel Foundation from 1960 to 1964.The Nobel Foundation: A Century of Growth and Change. Nobelprize.org. Retrieved on 2017-10-02.

Quotation from Arne Tiselius

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language. Arne TiseliusWEB, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, SGU, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast #709 - February 9, 2019, 9 February 2019,weblink 9 February 2019,

Awards and honours

• 1948 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
• 1949 Elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of SciencesWEB,weblink Arne Tiselius, www.nasonline.org,
• 1953 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and SciencesWEB, Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius,weblink 2022-11-03, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, en,
• 1957 Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS).Nobel Lecture Electrophoresis and Adsorption Analysis as Aids in Investigations of Large Molecular Weight Substances and Their Breakdown Products from Nobelprize.org website
• 1961 Paul Karrer Gold MedalWEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150721192618weblink">weblink dead, 21 July 2015, List of Recipients, University of Zurich, 5 December 2015,
• 1964 Elected to the American Philosophical SocietyWEB, APS Member History,weblink 2022-11-03, search.amphilsoc.org,

The lunar crater Tiselius was named in his honour.

Personal life

Tiselius was married, with two children. He died of a heart attack 29 October 1971 in Uppsala. His wife died in 1986.Ingrid Margareta Tiselius (Dahlén) (1905 - 1986) - Genealogy{{clear}}

References

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External links

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• {{Nobelprize}} including the Nobel Lecture on December 13, 1948 Electrophoresis and Adsorption Analysis as Aids in Investigations of Large Molecular Weight Substances and Their Breakdown Products

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