Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager
Born(1903-11-27)November 27, 1903
Kristiania (Oslo), Norway
DiedOctober 5, 1976(1976-10-05) (aged 72)
NationalityAmerican
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Scientific career
FieldsPhysical chemist
Institutions
Thesis Solutions of the Mathieu Equation of Period 4π and Certain Related Functions  (1935)
Doctoral studentsJoseph L. McCauley

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