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Died | October 5, 1976 Coral Gables, Florida, U.S. | (aged 72)
Nationality | American |
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Fields | Physical chemist |
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Thesis | Solutions of the Mathieu Equation of Period 4π and Certain Related Functions (1935) |
Doctoral students | Joseph 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]