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Advertisement Lars Onsager Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 1 item Lars Onsager (1903-1976), Norwegian-American chemist and Nobel laureate. Onsager's special interest was the thermodynamics of solutions . For his law of reciprocal relations, later called the zeroth law of thermodynamics, Onsager was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Born in Oslo, Norway, Onsager received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim in 1925. In 1928, after emigrating to the United States, he became an associate professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He later joined the faculty of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, teaching chemistry and probability statistics. Due to the economics of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Onsager's position at Brown was terminated. He eventually joined the faculty at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1932, where he also completed the requirements for a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1935. He retired from Yale University in 1972 and taught briefly at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. There, at age 70, he began to study | |
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