biography
| name: |
Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus
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pronunciation:
[breonsted]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1947)
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Varde, W Denmark. He studied engineering and chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen, and became professor of chemistry there (1908). He is known for a novel definition of acids and bases, the Brønsted–Lowry definition (independently introduced in 1923 by British chemist Thomas Martin Lowry), which defines an acid as a substance with a tendency to lose a proton, and a base as a substance that tends to gain a proton. |
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