Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager
Born(1903-11-27)November 27, 1903
Kristiania (Oslo), Norway
DiedOctober 5, 1976(1976-10-05) (aged 72)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical chemist
Institutions
Thesis Solutions of the Mathieu Equation of Period 4π and Certain Related Functions  (1935)
Doctoral studentsJoseph L. McCauley[2]

Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976)[1] 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.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ a b Longuet-Higgins, H. C.; Fisher, M. E. (1978). "Lars Onsager. 27 November 1903-5 October 1976". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 24: 443–471. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1978.0014. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 73226896.
  2. ^ Lars Onsager at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Montroll, Elliott W. (February 1977). "Lars Onsager". Physics Today. 30 (2): 77. Bibcode:1977PhT....30b..77M. doi:10.1063/1.3037438. Archived from the original on 2013-09-28.
  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  5. ^ Per Chr Hemmer, ed. (1996). World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics: Volume 17 : The Collected Works of Lars Onsager. Vol. 17. doi:10.1142/3027. ISBN 978-981-02-2563-6.

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