Scientist. Astrid Cleve von Euler was the first woman in Sweden to receive a Doctorate Degree in Science, graduating on May 27, 1898, with a major in philosophy at Uppsala University. Her dissertation paper was “Studies on the Germination Time and Amplification Stage of some Swedish Plants.” After graduation, she was an assistant professor at Stockholm University, a teacher at several girls’ schools in Stockholm, had a sheep farm, and the Director at Uddeholmsverken’s Laboratory in Skoghall. After returning to Uppsala in the early 1920s, she was recognized as an expert on diatoms, one-cell organisms in Algae. During the 1950s, she published her five-volume textbook, “The Diatoms of Sweden and Finland.” She was made a professor in 1955. She was not as successful with her theories in geology, in which she had to paid to publish her findings called the “Rocking Theory.” Noted scientist of her time dismissed her theory, and today, the “Rocking Theory” is considered unproven. In 1902 she married Hans von Euler-Chelpin, who would become the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient. She and von Euler-Chelpin had five children and in 1912 her marriage ended in divorce. Their son Ulf von Euler was the 1970 Nobel Prize co-recipient in Physiology and Medicine. Their son Georg was a judge and daughter Karin was an author. Politically, she considered herself a National Socialist. She was a contributor and shareholder in the newspaper, “Dogsposten,” a Swedish nationalist and pro-Nazi daily newspaper, that was supported by Germany until 1945. Later in her life, she converted to the Roman Catholic faith. At the age of 93 and a poor candidate for surgery, she had a hernia repair, in which she did not fully recuperate, dying in a nursing home. Born the daughter of noted scientist, Teodor Cleve and his wife Alma, she was buried with her parents. The grave marker has a bronze relief of her father on it.
Scientist. Astrid Cleve von Euler was the first woman in Sweden to receive a Doctorate Degree in Science, graduating on May 27, 1898, with a major in philosophy at Uppsala University. Her dissertation paper was “Studies on the Germination Time and Amplification Stage of some Swedish Plants.” After graduation, she was an assistant professor at Stockholm University, a teacher at several girls’ schools in Stockholm, had a sheep farm, and the Director at Uddeholmsverken’s Laboratory in Skoghall. After returning to Uppsala in the early 1920s, she was recognized as an expert on diatoms, one-cell organisms in Algae. During the 1950s, she published her five-volume textbook, “The Diatoms of Sweden and Finland.” She was made a professor in 1955. She was not as successful with her theories in geology, in which she had to paid to publish her findings called the “Rocking Theory.” Noted scientist of her time dismissed her theory, and today, the “Rocking Theory” is considered unproven. In 1902 she married Hans von Euler-Chelpin, who would become the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient. She and von Euler-Chelpin had five children and in 1912 her marriage ended in divorce. Their son Ulf von Euler was the 1970 Nobel Prize co-recipient in Physiology and Medicine. Their son Georg was a judge and daughter Karin was an author. Politically, she considered herself a National Socialist. She was a contributor and shareholder in the newspaper, “Dogsposten,” a Swedish nationalist and pro-Nazi daily newspaper, that was supported by Germany until 1945. Later in her life, she converted to the Roman Catholic faith. At the age of 93 and a poor candidate for surgery, she had a hernia repair, in which she did not fully recuperate, dying in a nursing home. Born the daughter of noted scientist, Teodor Cleve and his wife Alma, she was buried with her parents. The grave marker has a bronze relief of her father on it.
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