Hermann Walther Nernst
1864-1941
German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his formulation of the third law of thermodynamics, also known as the Nernst heat theorem (1905). This law states th...
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Nernst, Walther Hermann (1864–1941)
Walther Hermann Nernst was born in Briesen on June 25, 1864, into a prominent Prussian family. The line of his ancestors can be traced back to the era of the...
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As the nineteenth century drew to a close, physicists were gaining a greater understanding of the principles of heat and chemistry. This was due chiefly to the relatively new science of thermodynamics...
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Walther Nernst (1864-1941) made a significant breakthrough with his statement of the Third Law of Thermodynamics, which holds that it should be impossible to attain the temperature of absolute zero in...
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Walther Nernst made a significant breakthrough with his statement of the Third Law of Thermodynamics, which holds that it should be impossible to attain the temperature of absolute zero in any real ex...
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Hermann Walther Nernst
Nernst, Walther Hermann (1864-1941)
Hermann Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst