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Anna Sundström
Anna Sundström, born as "Anna Christina Persdotter", (26 February 1785 in Kymlinge, Spånga – 1871), was a Swedish chemist. She was the assistant of the chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius from 1808 to 1836. Anna Sundström has been referred to as the first female chemist in Sweden.
Biography.
Anna Persdotter was the daughter of the farmer Per Jansson, and later took the name Sundström. Early on, she moved to the capital to serve as a maid, and was in 1808
married Elisabeth Poppius in 1836.
Legacy.
Every year the Swedish Chemical Society's division of inorganic chemistry selects the best Swedish PhD-thesis in inorganic chemistry and presents the author with the Anna Sundström Award.
See also.
- Timeline of women in science
References.
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius: Reseanteckningar (1903)
- Karolinska Institutet 200 År - 1810-2010
- Anna Sundström, Sveriges första kvinnliga kemist (Swedish language)