Editing Svante Arrhenius (section)

===Early years===
Arrhenius was born on 19 February 1859 at [[Vik Castle|Vik]] (which can also be spelled as Wik or Wijk), near [[Uppsala]], [[Kingdom of Sweden]], the son of Svante Gustav and Carolina Thunberg Arrhenius, who were Lutheran.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0c4PgFznyMC&q=%22Christina+Thunberg+Arrhenius%22+%22lutheran%22|isbn = 9780897748995|title = The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995|year = 1996|publisher = Oryx Press}}</ref> His father had been a [[surveying|land surveyor]] for [[Uppsala University]], moving up to a supervisory position. At the age of three, Arrhenius taught himself to read without the encouragement of his parents and, by watching his father's addition of numbers in his account books, became an [[arithmetic]]al [[child prodigy|prodigy]]. In later life, Arrhenius was profoundly passionate about mathematical concepts, data analysis and discovering their relationships and laws.{{fact|date=June 2023}}

At age eight, he entered the [[Katedralskolan, Uppsala|local cathedral school]], starting in the fifth grade, distinguishing himself in [[physics]] and [[mathematics]], and graduating as the youngest and most able student in 1876.{{fact|date=June 2023}}