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Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager

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Who was Lars Onsager?

American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)

Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Lars Onsager (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Born
Christiania
Died
1976
Coral Gables
Nationality
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius

Awards & Honors

AwardYearDetails
Nobel Prize in Chemistry1968for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes

Nobel Prizes