In his pursuit of a doctorate, his thesis was bare
In his pursuit of a doctorate, his thesis was barely passed because the faculty at Uppsala were skeptical of his hypotheses. They were devoted to experimental research, while he claimed to have never performed  an exact experiment in his life. His theory was based on an ability to frame formulas to fit his facts, an ability which prompted physical chemist Wilhelm Ostwald to offer him a job based solely on his thesis. FTP identify this winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his electrolyte dissociation theory.
In his pursuit of a doctorate, his thesis was barely passed because the faculty at Uppsala were skeptical of his hypotheses.
Svante {Arrhenius}