Talk:Svante Arrhenius

message: Greta Thumberg what? What is the link?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.51.235 (talk) 16:41, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I've read, Olof Thunberg (Greta Thunberg's grandfather) named his son Svante Thunberg (Greta's father) after his own grandfather, Svante Arrhenius (Greta's great-great-grandfather). 2601:1C1:8A00:1700:DDBF:A05:8F92:1 (talk) 20:44, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The same claim is made on the talk page  Talk:Olof Thunberg. If true, given Arrhenius' contribution to the understanding of the Greenhouse effect and his great-great-granddaughter's efforts to mitigate it, the familial link should be mentioned. JezGrove (talk) 21:51, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: We should mention that they were on opposite sides of the issue. Arrhenius famously predicted that climate change from rising CO2 levels would be very beneficial, and Greta takes the opposite position. (Thus far, the evidence supports Arrhenius.) NCdave (talk) 04:41, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  <span id="Family_relation_to_Greta_Thunberg"></span>Family relation to Greta Thunberg (link in the ''See also'' section) 

message: In the "Later years" section it is written that, "Around 1930, conservative members of the society helped to establish eugenic policies in Sweden."
But 1930 was several years after Arrhenius' death, so it seems unfair to blame him for that. I propose that we delete that sentence, because it really has nothing to do with Arrhenius, and it has unfairly derogatory overtones, since there's no way to know whether or not he would have supported those eugenic policies (whatever they were -- I don't know).
Does anyone disagree? NCdave (talk) 04:56, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess nobody disagrees, so I've deleted that sentence. NCdave (talk) 07:11, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Later years 

message: Looking at the Swedish article sv:Anna-Lisa Arrhenius-Wold, I don't see Arrhenius-Wold fulfilling English Wp's WP:NACADEMIC criteria, and hence per the red link guideline there should be no red link for her.
 may be notable only for being a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.  is more clearly notable: a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, and other things.  should be notable for phosphate analysis in archaeology (in addition to membership in two royal academies). --Fyrisdal (talk) 16:23, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you--Htmlzycq (talk) 18:04, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red links in the ''Marriages and family'' section 

message: On more than one occasion it's noted that there was strong opposition to Arrhenius's promotion to an important position. Were there particular things about Arrhenius that tended to invite opposition, whether professional, personal, or both? TooManyFingers (talk) 17:12, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was there opposition to his promotions? 

message: What is the point of showing a non-Swedish pronunciation of his name? Its a Swedish name, so its pronounced in Swedish. I guess that the first pronunciation shown in the article is supposed to be English, but his name is not an English word, so I don't understand how could there even be consensus on what a correct English pronunciation would be. If Wikipedia insists on having made up pronunciations of non-English names, could the actual (in this case Swedish) pronunciation at least be shown first? Or could the first pronunciation just be removed, as there aren't made up pronunciations in the articles for Euler and Gauss either?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.233.143.158 (talk) 10:53, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The pronunciation of his name