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Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager
Personal information
Birth dateNovember 27, 1903
Birth placeKristiania (Oslo), Norway
Death dateOctober 5, 1976(age 72)
Death placeCoral Gables, Florida, U.S.
ResidenceUnited States
NationalityNorway, U.S.
FieldsPhysical chemist
InstitutionsETH Zürich
Johns Hopkins University
Brown University
Yale University
Alma materNorwegian Institute of Technology
Doctoral studentsJoseph L. McCauley
Known forOnsager reciprocal relations, the exact solution to the two-dimensional Ising model and for revealing the physics behind the De Haas � van Alphen effect
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (1968)

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Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 - October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University.

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NPR (blog)--The physicist -Lars Onsager- formulated his famous linear theory of flows and forces for systems just slightly displaced from thermodynamic systems and open ... - Date : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:44:37 GMT+00:00
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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) * Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) * Hermann Staudinger (1953) * Linus Pauling (1954) * Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) * Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) * Alexander Todd (1957) * Frederick Sanger (1958) * Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) * Willard Libby (1960) * Melvin Calvin (1961) * Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) * Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) * Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) * Robert Woodward (1965) * Robert S. Mulliken (1966) * Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter (1967) * Lars Onsager (1968) * Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) * Luis Federico Leloir (1970) * Gerhard Herzberg (1971) * Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) * E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) * Paul Flory (1974) * John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)



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