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Place of Birth: Surahammar, Västmanland County, Sweden
About Sten Lagergren
- Sten Yngve Dennis Lagergren (6 May 1876 – 4 April 1922) was a Swedish physical chemist known for his fundamental findings in adsorption kinetics. Lagergrens's 1898 article "Zur Theorie der Sogenannten Adsorption Gelöster Stoffe" (To the theory of the so-called adsorption of dissolved materials) brought him a lasting fame.
- In 2018, 120 years after its publication, the paper was cited more than 800 times according to Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, making its total number of citation above 6000.
- In addition, his name became an eponym in the form of Lagergren equation or Lagergren kinetics occurring several thousand times in the literature.
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