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Named in memory of the Swedish physicochemist Svante August Arrhenius (1859–1927). A professor in Stockholm, he received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1903. He was the first to explain, in 1900, the formation of the tails of comets as a result of radiation pressure. (M 25977)

Arrhenius is also honored by craters on Mars and on the Moon. See also the citation for planet  (5699).