Lars Onsage
1903-1976
Norwegian-born, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1968 for his theory of irreversible chemical reactions. He made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, th...
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Onsager, Lars (1903–1976)
Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-American chemist and physicist who received the 1968 Nobel Prize in ...
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Lars Onsager (1903-1976) made significant contributions to chemistry, including his developments in the Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic dissociation and his work with non-reversable systems. ...
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Lars Onsager was born in Oslo (then known as Christiania), Norway, in 1903. His parents were Erling Onsager and Ingrid Kirkeby Onsager.Onsager excelled in chemistry from an early age, and his prodigio...
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Born in Norway, Lars Onsager received his early education there before coming to the United States in 1928 to do graduate work at Yale University. After receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry he...
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Lars Onsager was born in Oslo (then known as Christiania), Norway, in 1903. His parents were Erling Onsager and Ingrid Kirkeby Onsager.Onsager excelled in chemistry from an early age, and his prodigio...
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