Walther Hermann Nernst
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1920in recognition of his work in thermochemistry
- Citizenship
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Weimar Republic 
Kingdom of Prussia - Languages
- German
- date of birth
- 6/25/1864
- place of birth
- Wąbrzeźno
- date of death
- 11/18/1941
- place of death
- Bad Muskau, Niwica
- Lived
- 77 years
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- educated at
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- University of Würzburg
- academic degree: doctorate
- end time: 1887
- start time: 1886
- University of Zurich
- start time: 1883
- University of Graz
- start time: 1886
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- start time: 1885
- Leipzig University
- University of Würzburg
- member of
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- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- start time: 3/5/1905
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- start time: 12/1/1923
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Royal Society of London
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher
- chemist
- doctoral student
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- Kurt Wohl
- Hermann Schottky
- Robert von Lieben
- Hans Schimank
- Francis Simon
- Irving Langmuir
- Fritz Lange
- William Duane
- Friedrich Dolezalek
- John Eggert
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
- Max Speter
- Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer
- Arnold Eucken
- Emil Abel
- work location
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- Munich
- Berlin
- Göttingen
- Heidelberg
- Leipzig
- Graz
- Zurich
- field of work
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- physical chemistry
- employer
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- University of Göttingen
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt