Lars Onsager Ph.D..
Lars Onsager Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968
National Medal of Science – Physical Sciences 1968
Name: Lars Onsager
Birth: 27 November 1903, Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway
Death: 5 October 1976, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Institution: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Award: “for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes”
Subject: chemical thermodynamics, physical chemistry
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Biography
Nat’l Medal – Physical Science
The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: Professor of Chemistry
Affiliation: Yale University New Haven,Connecticut USA
Gender: Male
Year Deceased: 1976
Award Discipline: Physical Sciences
Award Year: 1968
Citation: “For a brilliant variety of seminal contributions to the understanding of electrolytes and other chemical systems, especially to the thermodynamics of systems in change.”
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on 17-Jan-69