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WE regret to record the death, at the age of seventy-seven years, of Dr. Fredrik Gustaf Ekman. From the Göteborgs Morgenpost of Feb. 27, we learn the following details of his life. Ekman was born at Stockholm in 1852, and when he was nine years old, his family moved to Göteborg, where his father and brother obtained posts in the Carnegie sugar-refinery. As a student at the technical high school of Göteborg and Chalmers technical institute, and afterwards at Wiesbaden and Uppsala, Gustaf Ekman specialised in scientific technology with the view of acquiring full knowledge of the technique and the chemico-scientific basis of sugar-refining. On his return to Göteborg in 1880 he obtained the post of technical director in Carnegie's refinery, and for twenty years as technical director and then as one of its managing directors Ekman rendered considerable service to the development of the Swedish sugar manufacture.
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Dr. Gustaf Ekman. Nature 125, 827 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125827b0
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