That was Svante Arrhenius, but his paper is from 1896. www.rsc.org/images/arrhe...

Yeah I think that was the one I was thinking of. Figures I got the year and not the nationality wrong 🙃 It still blows me away this isn’t some new fangled research. It’s amazing that we simply aren’t repeatedly told, “Hey! This has been known since the 1800s people! Wake up!”