The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Lars Onsager
Title:
Professor of Chemistry
Affiliation:
Yale University
New Haven,Connecticut USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
1976
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1968
Citation:
"For a brilliant variety of seminal contributions to the understanding of electrolytes and other chemical systems, especially to the thermodynamics of systems in change."
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on 17-Jan-69
Nobel Laureate:
Chemistry, 1968