Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.

E. ("The") Svedberg (30 August 1884 – 25 February 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate active at Uppsala University. See also
Ralph Kekwick FRS.

His work with colloids supported the theories of Brownian motion put forward by Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski. E. Theodor H.