Lars Onsager
(1903-1976)
Norwegian-American chemist and physicist. Born in
Oslo, Ch.E. degree from Norges Tekniske Høiskole, Trondheim, in
1925. Emigrated to the USA in 1928 and became an American citizen in
1945. J. Willard Gibbs Professor at Yale University. Received the
1968 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry for work done in 1931 on irreversible
thermodynamics. (Biographical
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| News |
| 5. Sep 2002
The Onsager Lecture 2002 will take place
on September 19th, abstract and details are available here
1. Feb 2002
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Please send
proposals for candidates for the Onsager professorship
(regulations)
and the Onsager Lecturer (regulations)
for 2003 to Prof.
Helge Holden, Institutt for matematiske fag.
Deadline: April 15, 2002.
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The Onsager
medal
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| Thanks to the generosity of Lars Onsager's sons and
daughter, the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology has established a Lars
Onsager archive located at Universitetsbiblioteket/Gunnerus
Library in Trondheim.
A general reference to the scientific works of Lars Onsager is
The Collected
Works of Lars Onsager (With Commentary)
(P.C. Hemmer,
H. Holden, S.K. Ratkje, editors)
World Scientific, Singapore
1996 |
| Present Onsager Professor and
Lecturer |
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| The Lars Onsager
Lecture |
| The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology
and the Faculty of Information Technology,
Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering sponsor
the annual Lars Onsager Lecture.
Previous recipients are:
- 2001 Sir
Michael Berry, University of Bristol
(mathematical physics).
- 2000 Vaughan
Jones, University of California, Los Angeles
(mathematics)
- 1999 H.
N. W. Lekkerkerker, Utrecht University,
Utrecht (colloid chemistry)
- 1998 E.
H. Lieb, Princeton University (physics and
mathematics)
- 1997 P. G. de Gennes, Collège
de France (physics)
- 1996 R.
J. Donnelly, University of Oregon
(superfluids)
- 1995 W.
Ebeling, Humboldt-University Berlin
(physical chemistry)
- 1994 B.
Widom, Cornell University (statistical
physics and physical chemistry)
- 1993 M. E. Fisher, University of
Maryland (statistical physics)
Regulations
for the Lars Onsager Lecture (in Norwegian).
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| The Lars Onsager
Professorship |
| The Norwegian Company Norsk Hydro
sponsors the annual Lars Onsager
Professorship. The recipient is to spend 3-6
months at NTNU to collaborate with scientists
here.
Previous recipients are:
- 2001 D.
A. Brant, University of Californa, Irvine
(chemistry).
- 2000 V. Havin, St. Petersburg (mathematics).
- 1999 A.
Iserles, University of Cambridge
(mathematics)
- 1998 V. S.
Varadarajan, University of California, Los
Angeles (mathematics)
- 1997 D.
Bedeaux, Leiden University (physical
chemistry)
- 1996 J.
M. J. van Leeuwen, Leiden University
(statistical physics)
- 1995 F. W. Gehring, University of
Michigan (mathematics)
- 1994 V. B. Lazarev, The
Kurnakov institute of General and Inorganic
Chemistry, Moscow (chemistry)
- 1993 G.
Stell, SUNY, Stony Brook (statistical
physics)
Regulations
for the Lars Onsager Professorship (in Norwegian).
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The Lars Onsager Lecture and the Lars Onsager Professorship
are awarded by the Onsager committee which consists of
Both the Lecturer and the Professor receive the Onsager
medal.
A postscript
and pdf
version of this page suitable for printout.
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