Died 1911-03-01.
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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist, in 1901 Van 't Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for his] discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions". His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In…
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science · Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852–1911) · chemist · physicist · engineer · geologist · university teacher · stereochemist · also Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Jacobus van't Hoff, J.H. van 't Hoff, Jacobus Henricus, Jacobus van 't Hoff, Hoff
Born 30 August 1852 · Died 1 March 1911 · Q102822
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1910· 1 entry
Won Helmholtz Medal (1910).
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1904· 1 entry
Was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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1901· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1901).
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1901).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1901).
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Van 't Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for his] discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
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Received the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with solutions
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1897· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1897).
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1896· 2 entries
Became a professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin
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Van 't Hoff moved to Germany, where he finished his career at the University of Berlin in 1911
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1893· 2 entries
Won Davy Medal (1893).
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(along with Le Bel), and elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1897
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1889· 1 entry
Provided physical justification for the Arrhenius equation
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1887· 2 entries
By Van ’t Hoff, Svante Arrhenius and Wilhelm Ostwald, at Leipzig University as the first dedicated scientific journal for the discipline
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And German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald founded an influential scientific magazine named Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie ("Journal of Physical Chemistry")
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1886· 1 entry
Showed a similarity between the behaviour of dilute solutions and gases
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1885· 1 entry
Van 't Hoff was appointed as a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1884· 1 entry
Van 't Hoff published his research on chemical kinetics, titled Études de Dynamique chimique ("Studies in Chemical Dynamics"), in which he described a new method for determining the order of a reaction using graphics and
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1878· 1 entry
Van 't Hoff married Johanna Francina Mees
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1877· 1 entry
At a time when the only job Van 't Hoff could find was at the Veterinary School in Utrecht
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1875· 1 entry
Predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality
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1874· 1 entry
Accounted for the phenomenon of optical activity by assuming that the chemical bonds between carbon atoms and their neighbors were directed towards the corners of a regular tetrahedron
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1852· 1 entry
Born 1852-08-30.
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