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Lars Onsager

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Lars Onsager

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Also known as L. Onsager

American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)

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Lars Onsager (1903–1976) was a scientist recognized in the Nobel Chemistry collection. His published works include *The collected works of Lars Onsager* and *Kinetic theory and statistical mechanics*. He is associated with the area of Khmelnytskyi.

Onsager received one Nobel Prize. He is recognized in the collections of the Royal Society, the American Academy Arts Sciences, and the Nobel Laureates. His work has been referenced by 866 other encyclopedia articles.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1968

    for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Lars
Gender
male
Place of birth
Christiania
Place of death
Coral Gables
Languages spoken
Dutch
Native language
Dutch
Doctoral advisor
Peter Debye
Field of work
physical chemistry
Image
Onsager 1968.jpg
Residence
Oslo
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Commons category
Lars Onsager
date of birth
1903-11-27
date of death
1976-10-05
Erdős number
3
ethnic group
Norwegians
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Education and early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lars Onsager” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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