Lars Onsager

Also known as L. Onsager

American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)

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Lars Onsager was an American physical chemist and theoretical physicist who made important contributions to understanding how chemical and physical systems behave. His work helped establish fundamental principles for how matter and energy interact, making him a significant figure in twentieth-century science.

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Born: 1903
Died: 1976
Works: 2

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The collected works of Lars Onsager
Kinetic theory and statistical mechanics

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Origin: Khmelnytskyi
Active from: 2014

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5 total works indexed

Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory
· 2011 · cited 25,672x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,412x
ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates
· 2017 · cited 16,481x
STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets
· 2018 · cited 15,410x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,393x

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Quotes

“On a new derivation of Birkhoff's strong ergodic hypothesis he once remarked in exasperation: "To be any more immaculate they will have to begin sterilizing the paper as well as the theorem !"”
“... he gave a seminar in Oxford about his ideas on liquid helium, but on this occasion even the theorists were baffled. Onsager's final comment in reply to a question was: "The results are not bad when you consider the enormity of the swindle which I have perpetrated!"”

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Commons category: Lars Onsager
date of birth: 1903-11-27
date of death: 1976-10-05
Erdős number: 3

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Lars Onsager (27 November 1903 – 5 October 1976) was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.

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