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CHEMIST

Lars Onsager

1903 - 1976

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Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was an American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lars Onsager has received more than 288,656 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Lars Onsager is the 122nd most popular chemist (up from 132nd in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Norway (up from 54th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Norwegian Chemist.

Lars Onsager is most famous for his work on the principle of thermodynamic reversibility.

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  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Lars Onsager ranks 122 out of 509. Before him are Avram Hershko, John Macleod, Casimir Funk, Richard R. Ernst, William Howard Stein, and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. After him are Georg Ernst Stahl, Johan Gadolin, Glenn T. Seaborg, Joachim Sauer, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Dan Shechtman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Lars Onsager ranks 43. Before him are Igor Kurchatov, Eliot Ness, Tunku Abdul Rahman, George Beadle, Georg Elser, and Julius Fučík. After him are Empress Kōjun, Andrei Grechko, Jiro Horikoshi, Claudio Arrau, Tamam Shud case, and John Eccles. Among people deceased in 1976, Lars Onsager ranks 32. Before him are Zhu De, Rudolf Bultmann, Raymond Queneau, Gustav Heinemann, Josef Albers, and Leopold Ružička. After him are Émile Benveniste, Choe Yong-gon, Juscelino Kubitschek, Dalton Trumbo, Andrei Grechko, and René Cassin.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Lars Onsager ranks 40 out of 927. Before him are Haakon the Good (918), Peder Severin Krøyer (1851), Haakon Sigurdsson (930), Christian Lous Lange (1869), Haakon IV of Norway (1204), and Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841). After him are Harald Greycloak (935), Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner (1932), Sonja Henie (1912), Trygve Haavelmo (1911), Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen (1930), and Johan Galtung (1930).

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Among CHEMISTS In Norway

Among chemists born in Norway, Lars Onsager ranks 2. Before him are Odd Hassel (1897). After him are Kristian Birkeland (1867) and Peter Waage (1833).

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