Jul,2017.
Science News.
Six things you need to know about Swedish countess Eva
Ekeblad.
Eva Ekeblad (10 July 1724 – 15 May 1786) was a Swedish
countess who was a salon hostess, agronomist, and scientist.
She was widely known for discovering a method in 1746 to
make alcohol and flour from potatoes, allowing greater use of scarce grains for
food production, significantly reducing Sweden's incidence of famine. Ekeblad
was the first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1748).
This year Google Doodle honours Swedish aristocrat and
scientist Eva Ekeblad (1724-86) on the 293rd anniversary of her birth.
Here are Six things you need to know about this
extraordinary lady.
1. Ekeblad has a rather special family background
Eva De la Gardie was born to statesman count Magnus Julius
De la Gardie (1668–1741) and the amateur politician and salonist Hedvig
Catharina Lilje: sister of Captain Carl Julius De la Gardie and Hedvig
Catharina De la Gardie and the aunt of Axel von Fersen the Younger.
Her brother was married to Cathérine Charlotte De la Gardie
and the brother-in-law of the royal favorite Hedvig Taube.
Her sister-in-law, Catherine Charlotte De La Gardie, was
also an interesting character: inventing a smallpox vaccine and intervening to
stop Sweden's last witch trial in Dalarna in 1758.
2. Ekeblad was the
first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1748).
Eva helped solve Sweden’s recurrent food crises as potatoes
were now being used to make alcohol, therein reducing dependence on other
staple cereals like oats, rye and barley. This contributes to releasing them
for use in pastry to feed hungry people.
Ekeblad submitted his results to the Swedish Academy in 1746
and was rewarded by becoming the first female member to understand the full
meaning of her breakthrough.
3.She improved the country's eating habits and reduced the
frequency of famines.
Ekeblad began experimenting on potatoes in 1746. In 1746,
Ekeblad wrote to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on her discoveries of
how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes
Ekeblad's work turned potatoes into a staple food in Sweden,
and increased the supply of wheat, rye and barley available for making bread,
since potatoes could be used instead to make alcohol.
4.She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton textile.
She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton woven
fabrics with soap in 1751, and replaced the dangerous ingredients in cosmetics
at the time using potato flour (1752).
She is said to have advertised the plant using its flowers
as hair ornaments.
5.Eva Ekeblad also took on a number of roles within the
royal court in Stockholm.
After the death of her husband in 1771, the renowned
scientist took on a number of roles within the royal court in Stockholm.
She served as lady in waiting to Queen Sophia Magdalena, as
Mistress of the Robes and as governess to Crown Prince Gustav IV Adolf, whose
birth she witnessed.
6.She is a talented woman but she also carries a strange
disease.
Her hitherto good health was affected by an illness that
year which left her much weakened and made her periodically bedridden for her
remaining eight years.
She spent her last six years in Mariedal Castle, where she
continued to be celebrated by the local aristocracy until she died.
Jul,2017
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