Arne Tiselius

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was born on August 10, 1902, in Stockholm. Studying physical chemistry under The Svedberg at Uppsala University, he investigated the migration of charged colloidal particles in electrical fields.

In 1937, Tiselius constructed the famous U-tube moving boundary electrophoresis apparatus with specialized optical Schlieren photography. Using this breakthrough instrument, he demonstrated that blood serum consists of distinct albumin, alpha-, beta-, and gamma-globulins, laying the foundation for modern immunology and biochemical separation techniques. Awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he served as President of the Nobel Foundation from 1960 to 1964 and helped establish CERN in Geneva.