Arrhenius (Svante Arrhenius)

Svante Arrhenius was a scientist who developed a way to understand how temperature affects chemical reactions. He discovered that increasing temperature makes reactions happen faster by providing molecules with more energy to overcome the energy barrier needed for the reaction to proceed. His formula relates the reaction rate to temperature and a material-specific factor called activation energy. This work helps explain phenomena like why reactions speed up when heated and plays a vital role in fields like chemistry, physics, and climate science, including understanding how greenhouse gases influence Earth's temperature.