Carlson, Oscar

Biographical information from Sven Oden, Oscar Fredrik Carlson, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, 1 (Stockholm, 1927), 500-511. 

S. Oden, Oscar Fredrik Carlson , Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon, 7 (1927), 500-511 Stockholms Superfosfat Fabriks Aktiebolag 1871-1946 (Stockholm, 1946) on Hierta s factory see N. Forsell ed., Liljeholmens Stearinfabrik 1839-1939 (Stockholm, 1939). 

Prof. Carl Erik Bergstrand, who was not present himself, was professor of agricultural chemistry at Ultuna Agricultural School, and had been working with Oscar Carlson. 

In 1886, Oscar Carlson suggested that a committee on how to improve chemical industry should be appointed. The suggestion was enthusiastically approved, but the 15-member committee did not take any action, and seems to have faded away. A report from such a committee would in any case probably have contained strong criticism against one important group in KS, the industrialists. This probably... 

Nevertheless, KS often succeeded to unite these different groups. Otto Pettersson s jubilee statement was not entirely unfounded. The importance of science also became clearer for many industrialists, with Oscar Carlson as a pioneer actively trying to break away from the trial-and-error ways of earlier chemical industry. Certainly conflicts between scientific and industrial interests continued well into the twentieth century, but science constantly grew stronger. 

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