Lars Onsager:
Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
November 27, 1903 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway
Death:
October 5, 1976 in Coral Gables, Florida
Claim to Fame:
Onsager was a Norwegian-American physical chemist who was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the Onsager reciprocal relations. These relations express the relationships between forces and flows in thermodynamic non-equilibrium systems. Onsager reciprocal relations are often considered the 'fourth' law of thermodynamics.
