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Lars Onsager
| Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968. Date of Birth: 20.11.1903 Country: USA |
Biography of Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.
He was born into a family of Erling Onsager, a Supreme Court lawyer, and Ingrid Kirkby. He received his education in his hometown and graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim in 1925 as a chemical engineer.
Onsager lars biography definition
It was during this time that Onsager developed an interest in the chemistry and physics of electrolytes.
In Switzerland, Paul Debye (Nobel laureate, 1936) and his assistant Erich Armand Arthur Hückel (1896–1980) had developed a general theory of strong electrolyte solutions.
However, Onsager, working independently, discovered inaccuracies in their calculations. In 1925, at the age of 22, Onsager visited Debye's laboratory without an invitation and presented his own calculations, stating that Debye's