Lennart Eberson

{{Short description|Swedish chemist (1933–2000)}}

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|work_institutions = Lund University

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|known_for = Organic chemistry; Electrochemistry

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Lennart Eugén Eberson, (5 January 1933 – 1 February 2000) was a Swedish chemist.

Eberson graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 1959 from Lund University with a thesis entitled "Studies in the Succinic and Glutaric Acid Series".{{cite book

|last=Eberson

|first=Lennart

|title=Studies in the Succinic and Glutaric Acid Series

|year=1959

|publisher=Esselte

|location=Stockholm

|language=en}}

{{cite journal

|last=Eberson

|first=Lennart

|title=Studies in the Succinic and Glutaric Acid Series

|journal=Svensk Kemisk Tidskrift

|year=1959

|volume=71

|pages=153

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From 1979 until his retirement in 1998, he was Professor of organic chemistry at Lund University. He authored several books, including the text books Introduktion till den organiska kemin (1965){{cite book

|last=Eberson

|first=Lennart

|title=Introduktion till den organiska kemin

|year=1965

|publisher=Natur och Kultur

|location=Stockholm

|language=Swedish}}

and Organisk kemi (1970; 2nd edition 1977).{{cite book

|last=Eberson

|first=Lennart

|title=Organisk kemi

|edition=2nd

|year=1977

|publisher=AWE/Geber

|location=Stockholm

|language=Swedish}}

He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1974, and to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1988.