Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager
Born	(1903-11-27)November 27, 1903 Kristiania (Oslo), Norway
Died	October 5, 1976(1976-10-05) (aged 72) Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Known for	Quantum vortex Negative temperature Onsager–Machlup function Onsager reaction field Onsager hard rod model Onsager regression hypothesis Debye–Hückel–Onsager equation Onsager reciprocal relations Square lattice Ising model Revealing the physics behind the De Haas–van Alphen effect and the Wien effect
Awards	Lorentz Medal (1958) Willard Gibbs Award (1962) Peter Debye Award (1965) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1968) National Medal of Science (1968) ForMemRS (1975)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Physical chemist
Institutions	ETH Zürich Johns Hopkins University Brown University Yale University University of Miami
Thesis	Solutions of the Mathieu Equation of Period 4π and Certain Related Functions  (1935)
Doctoral students	Joseph L. McCauley[2]

Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976)^[1] was an 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.^[3][4][5]