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...

(born Nov. 27, 1903, Kristiania [now Oslo], Nor.—died Oct. 5, 1976, Coral Gables, Fla., U.S.) Norwegian-born American chemist whose development of a general theory of irreversible chemical processes gained him the 1968 Nobel Prize for Chemistry....

(born Nov. 27, 1903, Oslo, Nor.—died Oct. 5, 1976, Coral Gables, Fla., U.S.) Norwegian-born U.S. chemist. He immigrated to the U.S. and taught principally at Yale University. His development of a general theory of irreversible chemical processes,...

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...