Åke Gerhard Ekstrand (28 December 1846 in

Gränna Gränna () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Jönköping Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 2,665 inhabitants in 2018. Founded in 1652 by Count Per Brahe the Younger, Per Brahe, it is in Småland on the eastern shores of the lake ...

– 9 April 1933), was a Swedish

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and public servant. Ekstrand became a student in

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in 1865,

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in 1872,

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in chemistry at

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in 1875 and the same year

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(Primus). As Byzantine scholar he studied chemistry 1877–1878 at the

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and the

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. He was 1879-1889 the commercial chemist in Uppsala, was appointed in 1889 as a teacher at Chalmers educational institution in

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and was with beginning in 1890 the Technical Officer at the

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control and adjustment bureau, chief engineer 1907–1909 in the Inspection and Adjustment Board, and 1909–1913 in the Control Board.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekstrand, Ake Gerhard Swedish chemists 19th-century Swedish civil servants Academic staff of the Chalmers University of Technology Uppsala University alumni Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1846 births 1933 deaths People from Gränna