The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968
Awarded on: 1968-10-30
"for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"
Affiliations:
- Yale University – New Haven, CT, USA
Lars Onsager
Born: 1903-11-27 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway
Gender: male
Field: Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)
Biography
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.