Svedberg

n. family name; Theodor Svedberg (1884-1971), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on colloid chemistry

A Svedberg (symbol S, sometimes Sv, not to be confused with Sv for Sverdrup) is a non-SI physical unit used to characterize the behaviour of a particle type in ultracentrifugation. Bigger particles have higher svedberg values. It is a unit of time amounting to 10-13 s or 100 fs. It is named after the Swedish physicist and chemist Theodor Svedberg (1884-1971), winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1926 for his work in the chemistry of colloids and his invention of the ultracentrifuge.The sedimentation rate or coefficient of a particle or macromolecule is computed through dividing the constant speed of sedimentation (in ms⁻¹) by the acceleration applied (in ms⁻²). The speed is constant because the force applied by the ultracentrifuge (measuring typically in multiples of hundreds of thousands of gravities) is canceled by the viscous resistance of the medium (normally water) through which the particle is moving. The result has the dimensions of a unit of time and is expressed in svedbergs. One svedberg is defined as exactly 10−13s.
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n. Svedberg, Theodor Svedberg, (1884-1971), Swedish Chemist

n. Svedberg, family name; Theodor Svedberg (1884-1971), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on colloid chemistry

Noun
1. Swedish theologian (1688-1772)
(synonym) Swedenborg, Emanuel Swedenborg, Emanuel Svedberg
(hypernym) theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser