CHEMISTRY: Lars Onsager 1968 - New Haven, CT
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The grave marker for Norwegian-American physical chemist Lars Onsager is inscribed with his status as a Nobel laureate. It is located in Grove Street Cemetery, 227 grove Street, New Haven, CT.
Waymark Code: WM10EHC
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2019
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Lars Onsager joined the faculty at Yale University in 1933 as Sterling Fellow, was an Assistant Professor 1934-1940, Associate Professor 1940-1945 and Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry 1945-1972.
The grave marker of Lars Onsager is inscribed:
LARS ONSAGER
1903 - 1976
BORN OSLO, NORWAY
J. WILLARD GIBBS PROFESSOR
NOBEL LAUREATE*
MARGARETHE ONSAGER
1912 - 1991
BORN MARBURG, AUSTRIA
*ETC
Lars Onsager was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1968 "for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"
The * and *ETC on his headstone were added later by his children. Among his unlisted accomplishment are:
Honorary Degrees - Doctor of Science from:
Harvard University (1954)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1962)
Brown University (1962)
Rheinisch-Westfahlische Technische Hochschule (1962)
The University of Chicago (1968)
Ohio State University (Cleveland, 1969)
Cambridge University (1970)
Oxford University (1971)
and
Doctor technicae from:
Norges tekniske høgskole (1960)
Rumford Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,(1953)
The Lorentz Medal from The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences,(1958)
Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (1965)
Belfer Award in Science from Yeshiva University (1966)
National Science Medal (1969)
Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1975)