Lars Onsager | |
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 Lars Onsager | |
| Born | November 27, 1903 |
| Died | October 5, 1976 (aged 72) Coral Gables, Florida, U.S. |
| 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lars Onsager at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
- ^ 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.