As the nineteenth century drew to a close, physicists were gaining a greater understanding of the principles of heat and chemistry. This was due chiefly to the relatively new science of thermodynamics, the proponents of which sought to explain the...

Walther Nernst (1864-1941) made a significant breakthrough with his statement of the Third Law of Thermodynamics, which holds that it should be impossible to attain the temperature of absolute zero in any real experiment. For this accomplishment, he...

Walther Nernst made a significant breakthrough with his statement of the Third Law of Thermodynamics, which holds that it should be impossible to attain the temperature of absolute zero in any real experiment. For this accomplishment, he was awarded...

Walther Hermann Nernst was born in Briesen on June 25, 1864, into a prominent Prussian family. The line of his ancestors can be traced back to the era of the first Prussian king in the seventeenth century. His most famous ancestor is Hermann Nernst,...

1864-1941 German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his formulation of the third law of thermodynamics, also known as the Nernst heat theorem (1905). This law states that no substance can be cooled to absolute zero (no atomic motion), but as...

Walther Hermann Nernst (June 25, 1864 – November 18, 1941) was a German chemist who is known for his theories behind the calculation of chemical affinity as embodied in the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in...