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It was first hypothesized by the great chemist Svante Arrhenius around the year 1900 - oddly enough, Arrhenius appears to have thought global warming would be a _good_ thing.
Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories 2009
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Svante Pääbo, the evolutionary geneticist who jogged my memory last week and the pioneer of analyzing DNA from extinct species, managed to extract unusually pure hominid DNA from the bone: Some 70% of the DNA was hominid, whereas in the Neanderthal bone from Croatia that he sequenced a few years before most DNA proved to be from soil bacteria and fungi.
Getting to Know a Real 'Abominable Snowman' Matt Ridley 2011
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In the minutes of its latest monetary policy meeting released Monday, Deputy Governor Svante Öberg said higher inflation than expected could mean the repo rate would need to be raised more quickly than the Riksbank's forecasts show.
Sweden's GDP Surges Charles Duxbury 2011
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The Swedish chemist and physicist Svante Arrhenius 1859-1927 is one of the giants of modern science.
Bill Chameides: Svante Arrhenius: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad Bill Chameides 2011
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Other researchers from the Max Planck Institute, led by Svante Pääbo, completed the first draft of the complete Neanderthal DNA last year.
We May All Have a Little Bit of Neanderthal Man in Us | Impact Lab 2010
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That was before Svante Arrhenius came along and demonstrated the fundamental link in 1896.
Gernot Wagner: Dear Climate Denier, Can You Repeat This on the Record? Gernot Wagner 2011
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Dr. Svante Lindqvist, the founding Director of the Nobel Museum, admits that winning a Nobel Prize comes down to being a matter of chance.
Rahilla Zafar: Raising the Next Nobel Laureate Rahilla Zafar 2011
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Dr. Svante Lindqvist, the founding Director of the Nobel Museum, admits that winning a Nobel Prize comes down to being a matter of chance.
Rahilla Zafar: Raising the Next Nobel Laureate Rahilla Zafar 2011
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Henricus van't Hoff, Svante Arrhenius and Wilhelm Ostwald, are generally regarded as the founders of a new branch of chemistry, physical chemistry.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Back then, we mentioned that we were waiting to hear from Svante Pääbo, a hominid genetics expert who was due to publish his findings from sequencing the neanderthal genome.
Hot Human-On-Neanderthal Action: A Scientific Update | Impact Lab 2010
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