Education
He studied at the University College of Stockholm and Uppsala University and completed his Doctor of Philosophy at Uppsala in 1898.
He studied at the University College of Stockholm and Uppsala University and completed his Doctor of Philosophy at Uppsala in 1898.
Grönwall worked for about a year as a civil engineer in Germany before he immigrated to the United States in 1904. This connection was a great opportunity. There were no teaching obligations.
He had complete control of his own time and an abundance of new intriguing problems to address in physical chemistry and in atomic physics.
He developed a solution to higher approximation in the Debye-Huckel theory.
He later taught mathematics at Princeton University and from 1925 he was a member of the physics department at Columbia University.