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Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) 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.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968 was awarded to Lars Onsager "for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"
Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-born American chemist whose development of a general theory of irreversible chemical processes gained him the 1968 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. His early work in statistical mechanics attracted the attention of the Dutch chemist Peter Debye, under whose direction Onsager.
Lars Onsager. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968. Born: 27 November 1903, Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. Died: 5 October 1976, Coral Gables, FL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Lars Onsager. In two 1931 papers, Onsager added two new fundamental principles to 19th century thermodynamics: the principles of microscopic reversibility and of least dissipation of energy.
Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, was born in Oslo on November 27th 1903 to Erling Onsager, a barrister, and Ingrid, née Kirkeby. In 1933 Lars Onsager married the Austrian-born Margarethe Arledter.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968 was awarded to Lars Onsager "for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"
The young man’s name was Lars Onsager (Murphy & Cohen 1968). Forty-three years later Onsager was 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’.
1968 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.
Lars Onsager was not altogether of this world, though he had a deep understanding of its fundamental laws. His life was first and foremost a life of the mind; he had little interest in politics or religion and spared little time for academic or public affairs.
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