Walther Nernst
Appearance
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Born | Walther Hermann Nernst 25 Juin 1864 Briesen, Wast Proushie (nou Wąbrzeźno, Poland) |
Dee'd | 18 November 1941 Zibelle, Lusatia, Germany (nou Niwica, Poland) | (aged 77)
Naitionality | German |
Alma mater | Varsity o Zürich Varsity o Berlin Varsity o Graz Varsity o Würzburg |
Kent for | Third Law o Thermodynamics Nernst lamp Nernst equation Nernst glower Nernst effect Nernst heat theorem Nernst potential Nernst–Planck equation |
Awairds | Nobel Prize in chemistry (1920) Franklin Medal (1928) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | Varsity o Göttingen Varsity o Berlin Varsity o Leipzig |
Doctoral advisor | Friedrich Kohlrausch |
Other academic advisors | Ludwig Boltzmann |
Doctoral students | Sir Frances Simon Richard Abegg Irving Langmuir Leonid Andrussow Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Frederick Lindemann William Duane |
Ither notable students | Gilbert N. Lewis Max Bodenstein Robert von Lieben Kurt Mendelssohn Theodor Wulf Emil Bose Hermann Irving Schlesinger Claude Hudson |
Influenced | J. R. Partington |
Signatur | File:Walther Hermann Nernst sig.gif |
Walther Hermann Nernst, ForMemRS[1] (25 Juin 1864 – 18 November 1941) wis a German chemist that is kent for his theories ahnit the calculation o chemical affinity as embouked in the third law o thermodynamics, that he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Nernst helped establish the modren field o physical chemistry an contreibutit tae electrochemistry, thermodynamics an solit state pheesics. He is kent for developin the Nernst equation as weel.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Cherwell; Simon, F. (1942). "Walther Nernst. 1864-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (11): 101. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1942.0010.
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