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
Kingdom of the Netherlands Kingdom of the Netherlands Norway Norway United States United 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
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1959
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1947
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1975
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
employer
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 11/5/1969
  • Leiden University
  • University of California, San Diego
  • Yale University
    • start time: 1933
  • Brown University
    • end time: 1933
  • Johns Hopkins University
    • start time: 1928
  • ETH Zurich
    • start time: 1926
    • end time: 1928
educated at
  • Norwegian Institute of Technology
    • start time: 1920
    • end time: 1925
  • Yale University
field of work
  • physical chemistry
occupation
  • engineer
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
doctoral student
  • Joseph Lee McCauley
  • John Frederick Nagle
  • Stefan Machlup
  • John Lester Greenstadt
  • Joseph F. Malerba
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