Lars Onsager - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1968
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Lars Onsager

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1968
for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes
Citizenship
NorwayNorwayKingdom of the NetherlandsKingdom of the NetherlandsUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
Dutch
date of birth
11/27/1903
place of birth
Christiania
date of death
10/5/1976
place of death
Coral Gables
Lived
72 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • theoretical physicist
  • chemist
  • engineer
field of work
  • physical chemistry
educated at
  • Norwegian Institute of Technology
    • start time: 1920
    • end time: 1925
  • Yale University
employer
  • ETH Zurich
    • start time: 1926
    • end time: 1928
  • Leiden University
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 11/5/1969
  • Johns Hopkins University
    • start time: 1928
  • Yale University
    • start time: 1933
  • Brown University
    • end time: 1933
  • University of California, San Diego
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1975
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1947
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1959
  • American Physical Society
doctoral student
  • John Frederick Nagle
  • Joseph Lee McCauley
  • Stefan Machlup
  • John Lester Greenstadt
  • Joseph F. Malerba
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