biography
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Nernst, Walther Hermann
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| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1941)
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Briesen, E Germany. He was professor of chemistry in Göttingen (1891), Berlin (1905), and director of the Berlin Physical Institute in 1925. He proposed the heat theorem (the third law of thermodynamics) in 1906, investigated the specific heat of solids at low temperature in connection with quantum theory, and also proposed the atom chain-reaction theory in photochemistry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1920. |
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