Lars Onsager was born in Oslo (then known as Christiania), Norway, in 1903. His parents were Erling Onsager and Ingrid Kirkeby Onsager. Onsager excelled in chemistry from an early age, and his prodigious talent in the field was exhibited while still a...

Lars Onsager (1903-1976) made significant contributions to chemistry, including his developments in the Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic dissociation and his work with non-reversable systems. He received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born...

Born in Norway, Lars Onsager received his early education there before coming to the United States in 1928 to do graduate work at Yale University. After receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry he stayed on at Yale and ultimately spent nearly all...

Oil well pumps in Midway-Sunset Oil Field. Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-American chemist and physicist who received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name which are...

1903-1976 Norwegian-born, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1968 for his theory of irreversible chemical reactions. He made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, the thermodynamics of solutions, superfluidity, superconductivity,...

Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale...