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Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager 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.
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science · Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976) · physicist · engineer · chemist · theoretical physicist · university teacher · also Lars Onsager, L. Onsager, Onsager
Born 27 November 1903 · Died 5 October 1976 · Q107405
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2008· 1 entry
2002· 1 entry
Yale Environment 360: Yale Physicist Wins Prestigious 2003 Lars Onsager Prize From the American Physical Society
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1997· 1 entry
His sons and daughter donated his scientific works and professional belongings to NTNU (before 1996 NTH) in Trondheim, Norway as his alma mater
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1993· 1 entry
To award outstanding scientists in the scientific fields of Lars Onsager; Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics
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1991· 1 entry
And was buried there, his children added an asterisk after "Nobel Laureate" and "*etc
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1976· 1 entry
Died 1976-10-05.
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1975).
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1972· 2 entries
Won Wilbur Cross Medal (1972).
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Onsager retired from Yale and became emeritus
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1968· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.
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Won National Medal of Science (1968).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1968).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1964).
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Willard Gibbs Award (1962).
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1960· 1 entry
Was awarded an honorary degree, doctor techn
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1959· 1 entry
And a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1975
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1958· 2 entries
Won Lorentz Medal (1958).
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Willard Gibbs Award in 1962, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Rumford Prize (1953).
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1947· 1 entry
Was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1949, and in 1950 he joined the ranks of Alpha Chi Sigma
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1945· 1 entry
Onsager was naturalized as an American citizen, and the same year he was awarded the title of J
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1934· 1 entry
And promoted to associate professor in 1940
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1933· 1 entry
When the Great Depression limited Brown's ability to support a faculty member who was only useful as a researcher and not a teacher, he was let go by Brown
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1929· 1 entry
And, in an expanded form, in 1931, whose importance went unrecognized for many years
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1928· 1 entry
Went to the United States to take a faculty position at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
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1925· 2 entries
Studied at Norwegian Institute of Technology (1920–1925).
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Arrived at a correction to the Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions, to specify Brownian movement of ions in solution, and during 1926 published it
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-11-27.
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