Astrid Cleve

Astrid Cleve ( born January 22, 1875 in Uppsala, † April 8, 1968 ) was a Swedish botanist and chemist. She was the first woman in Sweden who received a doctoral degree in a scientific discipline. Your botanical author abbreviation is A.Cleve.

Career

Astrid Cleve was born as the daughter of chemistry professor Per Teodor Cleve and his wife Alma Öbom. She was privately tutored at home and completed her education with graduating from high school from Uppsala in 1891. After high school she enrolled at the University of Uppsala for a natural science. My PhD thesis dealt with the germination of various Swedish plants. In 1898 she obtained a doctor's degree. As the University of Stockholm in employment of female academics open faced, she took her doctorate there to work as a lecturer in chemistry. During this time she sat down especially with lanthanides and selenium apart and published the results of their research in a number of journals. Because of their marriage to the chemistry professor Hans von Euler - Chelpin they abandoned his work after four years. When this marriage divorced after ten years, it secured a living first as a teacher of a girls' high school. In 1918, she managed to get a job in forestry research. My main interest was here first the chemistry of lignin, which is part of the cellulose in plant cell walls. Her research activity has shifted in the wake of the Quaternary geology. Particular attention put Cleveland here on fossil and recent diatoms.

Scientific performance

Astrid Cleve was in the form of scientific publications in particular contribute to better knowledge of the chemistry of lignin and of fossil and recent diatoms.

Personal

Astrid Cleve in 1902, married the chemist Hans von Euler - Chelpin. They then changed in Astrid Cleve von Euler your name. From the ten -year marriage produced five children.

Appreciation

In 1955, her title of professor of biology was awarded by the University of Uppsala in recognition of their research.

Works (selection)

  • The diatoms of Sweden and Finland, Cramer, 1968, Repr
  • What was de Svea älv? , Almqvist & Wiksell, Norblad, 1957
  • About some Diatomitablagerungen and whitish mine neous fine sediments from the southern Scandes, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1951
  • Vad är Melosira moniliformis, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1943
  • Bacillariaceen associations in the northernmost Finland, Academic Bookstore, 1939
  • The pebble plants of Täkernsees in Sweden, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1932

Swell

  • Renate Strohmeyer: Encyclopedia of natural scientists and natural knowledgeable women in Europe. Verlag Harri German, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9, pp. 72 f

Documents

  • Botanist (19th Century )
  • Botanist ( 20th century)
  • Chemists ( 19th century)
  • Chemists ( 20th century)
  • University teachers ( Stockholm University )
  • Swede
  • Born 1875
  • Died in 1968
  • Woman
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