What position did Svante Arrhenius take up in 1905?
Director of the Nobel Institute
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In 1905, Svante Arrhenius became the Director of the Nobel Institute, a position he held until his death in 1927. The Nobel Institute was founded in 1900 by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, to award prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature. Arrhenius was a Swedish chemist and physicist who is best known for his work on the greenhouse effect.
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