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Nernst, Hermann Walther
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
NERNST, HERMANN WALTHER ( b . Briesen, Prussia [now W ̹ br ź eno, Poland], 25 June 1864; d . Bad Muskau, Prussia [now German Democratic Republic]. 18 November 1941) chemistry . For a detailed study of his life and work, see Supplement.
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Eucken, Arnold Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...research was associated with projects of Walther Nernst, and he shared some of Nernst ’ s attitudes toward physical chemistry...entered the University of Berlin in 1905 to work in Nernst ’ s laboratory, and he completed his...
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Langmuir, Irving
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...latter, where he worked under Walther Nernst on the dissociation of various gases by...x2019; s career, for not ony was Nernst deeply engaged in the work on thermodynamics...favorably inclined toward applied research. Nernst had devised a new type of electric lamp...
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Bjerrum, Niels Janniksen
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Perrin in Paris (1910), and Walther Nernst in Berlin ( 1911). In 1907 Bjerrum married...physics, an outgrowth of his work with Nernst in Berlin, were made primarily in four...had been made for solids by Einstein, Nernst, and Lindemann. In this work Bjerrum...
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Noddack, Walter
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...completed under the direction of W. Nernst, examined Einstein ’ law of...Noddack then worked for two years with Nernst at the physical Chemistry Institute of...Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt under Nernst. In 1927 Noddack became director at the...
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Duane, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...heard the organic chemist Wallach but worked especially with Nernst. Duane ’ s experimental and theoretical investigation...ber elektrolytische Thermoketten , suggested and guided by Nernst, was accepted by Planck in December 1897 as a University of...
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Lewis, Gilbert Newton
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Germany, the center of physical chemistry, and studied with W. Nernst at G ö ttingen and with W. Ostwald at Leipzig. Upon...temperatures. Richards too tried and failed, and not until Nernst succeeded in 1907 was it possible to calculate entropies unambiguously...
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Lindemann, Frederick Alexander
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...American and of Scottish descent. He was educated in Scotland and Germany, and took his Ph.D. with Nernst in 1910. Together they formulated the Nernst-Lindemann theory of specific heats, and at the same time Lindemann derived his formula relating...
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Pringsheim, Alfred
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Once when he was asked about his son, who at that time worked as a physicist under Nernst, he answered “ Peter ist in Berlin und lernt da den Nernst der Lebens kennen. ” After 1933 he was subjected to persecution as a...
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Haber, Fritz
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...significance, and he looked into several possible solutions. Walther Nernst, a leader in physical chemistry, obtained data at variance...for the combination of nitrogen and hydrogen to form ammonia. Nernst presented measurements from experiments done at high pressure...
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