Awards & Winners

Lars Onsager

Date of Birth 27-November-1903
Place of Birth Oslo
(Norway)
Nationality Norway, United States of America
Profession Physicist, Engineer, Chemist
Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University.

Awards by Lars Onsager

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lars Onsager.

1968


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For a brilliant variety of seminal contributions to the understanding of electrolytes and other chemical systems, especially to the thermodynamics of systems in change.)

1953


Rumford Prize
(For his contribution to the thermodynamics of transport processes.)