Lars Vegard | |
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| Born | 3 February 1880 |
| Died | 21 December 1963 |
| Citizenship | Norway |
| Education | University of Oslo |
| Occupation(s) | physicist, politician, professor |
| Employer | University of Oslo |
| Known for | Vegard's law |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Awards | Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence (1934) Order of St. Olav (1952) |
Lars Vegard (3 February 1880 – 21 December 1963) was a Norwegian physicist who is a pioneer in crystallography. He also made contributions to materials science and the science of aurora borealis.[1][2] The Vegard's law in solid state chemistry and materials science,[3][4] the only law of nature formulated by a Norwegian,[5] is named after him.
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- ^ Kragh, Helge (2009-11-01). "The Spectrum of the Aurora Borealis: From Enigma to Laboratory Science". Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. 39 (4): 377–417. doi:10.1525/hsns.2009.39.4.377. ISSN 1939-1811.
- ^ Vegard, L. (1921). "Die Konstitution der Mischkristalle und die Raumfüllung der Atome". Zeitschrift für Physik (in German). 5 (1): 17–26. doi:10.1007/BF01349680. ISSN 1434-6001.
- ^ Denton, A. R.; Ashcroft, N. W. (1991-03-01). "Vegard's law". Physical Review A. 43 (6): 3161–3164. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.43.3161. ISSN 1050-2947.
- ^ Pedersen, Bjørn (2011). "Physical Science in Oslo". Physics in Perspective. 13 (2): 215–238. doi:10.1007/s00016-011-0055-8. ISSN 1422-6944.