Peter Waage:
Peter Waage was a Norwegian chemist.
Birth:
June 29, 1833 in Norway
Death:
January 13, 1900 in Norway
Claim to Fame:
Waage was a Norwegian chemist who, together with Cato Guldberg, discovered the Law of Mass Action. This law relates the rate of a chemical reaction is proportional to the amount of active mass, or concentration, of the reactants. This law became the basis for determining rate constants of chemical reactions.
