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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

 

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