Product Description
This volume contains the collected works of the eminent chemist and physicist Lars Onsager, one of the most influential scientists of the 20th Century.

The volume includes Onsager's previously unpublished PhD thesis, a biography by H C Longuet-Higgins and M E Fisher, an autobiographical commentary, selected photographs, and a list of Onsager discussion remarks in print.

Onsager's scientific achievements were characterized by deep insights into the natural sciences. His two best-known accomplishments are his reciprocal relations for irreversible processes, for which he received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his explicit solution of the two-dimensional Ising model, a mathematical tour de force that created a sensation when it appeared. In addition, he made significant theoretical contributions to other fields, including electrolytes, colloids, superconductivity, turbulence, ice, electrons in metals, and dielectrics.

In this volume, Onsager's contributions are divided into the following fields: irreversible processes; the Ising model; electrolytes; colloids; helium II and vortex quantization; off-diagonal long-range order and flux quantization; electrons in metal; turbulence; ion recombination; fluctuation theory; dielectrics; ice and water; biology; Mathieu functions. The different fields are evaluated by leading experts. The commentators are P W Anderson, R Askey, A Chorin, C Domb, R J Donnelly, W Ebeling, J-C Justice, H N W Lekkerkerker, P Mazur, H P McKean, J F Nagle, T Odijk, A B Pippard, G Stell, G H Weiss, and C N Yang. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Atle Selberg, Lars Onsager, Knute Rockne, Sondre Norheim, Haldor Lillenas, Knute Nelson, Leif J. Sverdrup, John A. Widtsoe, Molla Mallory, Andrew Furuseth, Elise M. Boulding, Theodore Theodorsen, Bernt Balchen, Hans Hansen Bergen, Abraham Vereide, Ole Singstad, Fred Kavli, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, Werner Nilsen, Hans Christian Heg, Simon Benson, Jørgine Boomer, Hans-Jørgen Holman, Marcus Thrane, Hendrik Christian Andersen, Christian Theodore Pedersen, James Denoon Reymert, U. V. Koren, Ole J. Kleppa, Harry Lundeberg, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, Waldemar Ager, John Anderson, Nephi Anderson, Snowshoe Thompson, Cleng Peerson, Leonhard Seppala, Tinius Olsen, Johan Reinert Reiersen, O. P. Hoff, Karl Westa, Knut Gjerset, Nils Otto Tank, Ivar Giaever, Gunnar Kaasen, Nils P. Haugen, Elise Wærenskjold, Dan Weggeland, Hjalmar Hvam, Ragnvald A. Nestos, Jafet Lindeberg, Elias Anton Cappelen Smith, Agnes Mathilde Wergeland, H. P. Faye, Sig Haugdahl, Peder Sather, Fred Severud, Nicolai A. Grevstad, Jonas Lie, Martha Ostenso, Haldor Johan Hanson, John Moses, Benjamin Blessum, Nils Nilsen Ronning, Peter Laurentius Larsen, Ole Knudsen Nattestad, Ole Evinrude, John N. Kildahl, Jacob Fjelde, Georg Sverdrup, Greta Nissen, Karsten Solheim, Dorthea Dahl, Brynild Anundsen, Kjell Qvale, Lars Jonson Haukaness, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Finn Ronne, Osborne J. P. Widtsoe, F. Melius Christiansen, Eduard Bøckmann, Hans Andersen Foss, Thorbjorn N. Mohn, Corey Engen, Kristofer Janson, Ole Amundsen Buslett, Sigurd Anderson, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo, Eva Gustavson, Hjalmar Holand, Bernt B. Haugan, Sverre Engen, Elling Eielsen, Peter C. Assersen, Ludwig Andreas Olsen, Ole C. Johnson, Bernt Julius Muus, Helga Estby, Herman Amberg Preus, Sigvald Asbjørnsen, Magnus Bjorndal, Canute Peterson, Frederick William Cappelen, Jacob Tanner, Harold Knutson, Jørgen Holmboe, Johannes B. Wist, Valdemar Knudsen, Atley Peterson, Pauline Fjelde...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23755253 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Norwegian Immigrants to Canada, Norwegian Immigrants to the United States, Atle Selberg, Lars Onsager, Knute Rockne, Sondre Norheim, Haldor Lillenas, Knute Nelson, Leif J. Sverdrup, John A. Widtsoe, Molla Mallory, Andrew Furuseth, Elise M. Boulding, Theodore Theodorsen, Bernt Balchen, Hans Hansen Bergen, Carl Anton Larsen, Abraham Vereide, Ole Singstad, Fred Kavli, Vlasta Vrana, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, Werner Nilsen, Hans Christian Heg, Simon Benson, Jørgine Boomer, Hans-Jørgen Holman, Marcus Thrane, Hendrik Christian Andersen, Endre Johannes Cleven, Christian Theodore Pedersen, James Denoon Reymert, U. V. Koren, Ole J. Kleppa, Harry Lundeberg, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, Waldemar Ager, John Anderson, Nephi Anderson, Snowshoe Thompson, Cleng Peerson, Leonhard Seppala, Tinius Olsen, Johan Reinert Reiersen, O. P. Hoff, Karl Westa, Knut Gjerset, Nils Otto Tank, Ivar Giaever, Gunnar Kaasen, Nils P. Haugen, Elise Wærenskjold, Dan Weggeland, Hjalmar Hvam, Ragnvald A. Nestos, Jafet Lindeberg, Elias Anton Cappelen Smith, Agnes Mathilde Wergeland, H. P. Faye, Sig Haugdahl, Peder Sather, Fred Severud, Nicolai A. Grevstad, Jonas Lie, Martha Ostenso, Haldor Johan Hanson, Benjamin Blessum, John Moses, Henry Larsen, Nils Nilsen Ronning, Peter Laurentius Larsen, Ole Knudsen Nattestad, Ole Evinrude, John N. Kildahl, Jacob Fjelde, Georg Sverdrup, Greta Nissen, Karsten Solheim, Dorthea Dahl, Brynild Anundsen, Kjell Qvale, Lars Jonson Haukaness, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Finn Ronne, Osborne J. P. Widtsoe, F. Melius Christiansen, Eduard Bøckmann, Hans Andersen Foss, Thorbjorn N. Mohn, Corey Engen, Kristofer Janson, Ole Amundsen Buslett, Sigurd Anderson, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo, Eva Gustavson, Hjalmar Holand, Bernt B. Haugan, Sverre Engen, Elling Eielsen, Peter C. Assersen, Ludwig Andreas Olsen, Ole C. Johnson, Bernt Julius Muus, Helga Estby, Herman Amberg Preus, Sigvald Asbjørnsen, Magnus Bjorndal, Canute Peter...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23755253 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Lars Onsager, Kristian Birkeland, Carl Størmer, Christopher Hansteen, Kalbe Razi Naqvi, Ivar Giaever, Harald K. Schjelderup, Hartvig Caspar Christie, Tor Hagfors, Ole Jacob Broch, Øyvind Grøn, Bjørn Wiik, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Eivind Hiis Hauge, Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark, Lars Vegard, Carl Anton Bjerknes, Pål Brekke, Jørg Tofte Jebsen, Otto Chr. Bastiansen, Harald Wergeland, Otto Øgrim, Torbjørn Digernes, Johan Peter Holtsmark, Gunnar Randers, Daniel Isaachsen, Adam Arndtsen, Kristian Fossheim, Olav Holt, Alv Egeland, Gotfred Kvifte, Ragnvald Høier, Per Arne Rikvold, Trygve Røed-Larsen, Ola Hunderi, Kjell Henriksen,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kristian Olaf Birkeland (13 December 1867 - 15 June 1917) was a Norwegian scientist. He is best remembered as the person who first elucidated the nature of the Aurora borealis. In order to fund his research on the aurorae, he invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland-Eyde process of fixing nitrogen from the air. Birkeland was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times. Birkeland was born in Christiania (Oslo today) and wrote his first scientific paper at the age of 18. Birkeland married Ida Charlotte Hammer in May 1905, they had no children and due to Birkeland's work, they finally divorced in 1911. Suffering from severe paranoia due to his use of Veronal as a sleeping aid, he died under mysterious circumstances in his room in the Hotel Seiyoken in Tokyo while visiting colleagues at the University of Tokyo. A post-mortem revealed that Birkeland had taken 10g of veronal the night he died, instead of the 0.5g recommended. The time of death was estimated at 7am on 15 June, 1917. Some authors have claimed that he committed suicide. He organized several expeditions to Norway's high-latitude ...http://booksllc.net/?id=64146 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Lars Onsager, Leif Tronstad, Theodore Theodorsen, David Sandved, Bjørn Rørholt, Leif Ryvarden, Ole J. Kleppa, Christian Rynning-Tønnesen, Frode Rinnan, Ivar Giaever, Arne Rettedal, Jens Wisløff, Erik Welle-Strand, Endre Berner, Arne Sølvberg, Einar Johansen, Fred Severud, Christian Gierløff, Haakon Sørbye, Tor Hagfors, Kristian Gleditsch, Sverre Munck, Einar Sverdrup, Egil Reksten, Knut Henning Thygesen, Dag Kavlie, Martin Siem, Lars T. Platou, Hans Martin Seip, Johannes Falnes, Jan Christiansen, Theodor Borchgrevink, Yngvar Sonnichsen, Eivind Hiis Hauge, Nils Marstein, Jacob Christie Kielland, Gunnar Horn, Gro Brækken, Karin Refsnes, Siri Hatlen, Harald Rensvik, Sverre Quale, Sverre Rynning-Tønnesen, Ingvald Ulveseth, Vebjørn Tandberg, Svein Grøndalen, Diderik Schnitler, Thorvald Mellingen, Finn Lied, Tor Olav Trøim, Torbjørn Digernes, Bjarne Johannes Hope, Øyvind Myhre, Helmer Dahl, Øyvind Gustavsen, Hans Goksøyr, Ove Skaug, Lorentz Harboe Ree, Kjell Egil Eimhjellen, Stig Berge, Karl Olsen, Arne Bjørlykke, Kristian Seip, Harald Wergeland, Gunnar Jordfald, Svein Hatløy, Johan Berthin Holte, Olav Søfteland, Bernt Ingvaldsen, Lars Lefdal, Terje Moe, Hans Jacob Hansteen, Olav Smidsrød, Olav Torpp, Marit Trætteberg, Annette Malm Justad, Thomas Offenberg Backer, Ivar Lykke, Lars Monrad Krohn, Gudolf Blakstad, Håkon Jacobsen, Bjørn Flatgård, Egil Taule, Morten Loktu, Fredrik Torp, Ole Øvergaard, Erik Rolfsen, Arne Hygen Tørnkvist, Knut Hjeltnes, Ivar Brandvold. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 240. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Norwegian War MedalDefence Medal 1940 1945Order of the British EmpireDistinguished Service OrderLégion d'honneurCroix de guerrePresidential Medal of Freedom Leif Hans Larsen Tronstad DSO, OBE (27 March 1903 11 March 1945) was a Norwegian scientist,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17320805 ... Read more

Product Description
Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Victor Goldschmidt, Thomas Ebbesen, Lars Onsager, Erling Johnson, Odd Hassel. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (né le 27 janvier 1888 à Zurich, mort le 20 mars 1947 à Oslo) est un chimiste considéré comme le co-fondateur avec Vladimir Vernadski de la géochimie moderne et de la chimie des cristaux. On lui doit notamment la classification Goldschmidt des éléments. Heinrich, père de Victor, tenant un écureuilGoldschmidt voit le jour à Zurich. Ses parents, Heinrich J. Goldschmidt et Amelie Koehne, le prénomment en hommage à un des collègues de travail de Heinrich, Victor Meyer. Les deux familles comptent déjà une longue lignée de grands scientifiques et philosophes. La famille Goldschmidt est arrivée en Norvège en 1901, après que Heinrich Goldschmidt eut accepté la chaire de Professeur de chimie à Kristiana, à Oslo. La première contribution notable de Victor Goldschmidt s'est faite dans les champs de la géologie et de la minéralogie. Ses deux premiers travaux d'importance constituent une thèse de doctorat, Die Kontaktmetamorphose im Kristianiagebiet et Geologisch-petrographische Studien im Hochgebirge des südlichen Norwegens. Portrait du jeune Victor GoldschmidtLes premiers pas de la géochimie telle qu'on la connait sont rattachés à une série de publications de Goldschmidt, sous le titre Geochemische Verteilungsgesetze der Elemente. La géochimie est alors la science décrivant la distribution des éléments chimiques dans la nature. Cette approche a non seulement profondément dynamisé la minéralogie, mais également l'ensemble de la chimie théorique et de la cristallographie. Les travaux de Goldschmidt sur l'atome et la radiations ioniques ont eu un fort impact sur cette derni...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Lars Onsager, Ole J. Kleppa, Endre Berner, Lars Walløe, Hans Martin Seip, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Eyvind Bødtker, Thomas Ebbesen, Thorstein Hiortdahl, Peter Waage, Johan Fredrik Gram, Leiv Kristen Sydnes, Georg Dedichen, Otto Chr. Bastiansen, Walter Lund, Johan Berthin Holte, Axel Aubert, Marit Trætteberg, Kenneth Ruud, Gunnar Aksnes, Torbjørn Gaarder, Håkon Flood, Trygve Helgaker. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. Lars Onsager was born in Kristiania (today's Oslo), Norway. His father was a lawyer. After completing secondary school in Oslo, he attended the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim, graduating as a chemical engineer in 1925. In 1925 he arrived at a correction to the DebyeHückel theory of electrolytic solutions, to specify Brownian movement of ions in solution, and during 1926 published it. He traveled to Zürich, where Peter Debye was teaching, and confronted Debye, telling him his theory was wrong. He impressed Debye so much that he was invited to become Debye's assistant at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), where he remained until 1928. Eventually in 1928 he went to the United States of America to take a faculty position at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. At JHU he had to teach freshman classes in chemistry, and it quickly became apparent that, while he was a genius at developing theories in physical chemistry, he had little talent for teaching. He was dismissed by JHU after one semester. On leaving JHU, he accepted a position (invol...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=37175 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Lars Onsager, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Chinua Achebe, Martha Nussbaum, James Burrill Angell, Hans Rothfels, Robert Creeley, Phillip D. Cagan, Carlos Fuentes, David Mumford, Hilda Geiringer, Ruth Simmons, H. Stuart Hughes, Mark Tribe, Léon Brillouin, Erich Kunzel, Otto E. Neugebauer, Jaegwon Kim, Kenneth R. Miller, David F. Duncan, Robert Bruce Lindsay, Robert Kates, Rochelle Owens, Neve Gordon, Paul Phillips, Paula Vogel, Joel Feinberg, William Feller, Rachel Sarah Herz, Henry Simmons Frieze, Steven Schwarzschild, Alvin Hansen, Forrest Mcdonald, John Emigh, Jeffrey Vitter, David Kertzer, Roderick Chisholm, Edwin Honig, Morton Gurtin, Richard Bushman, Andries Van Dam, John F. Cherry, Forrest Gander, David C. Lewis, J. Franklin Jameson, Stefan E. Warschawski, Glenn Loury, Ron Nelson, Leon Cooper, Chia-Chiao Lin, Gerald Guralnik, Richard Anthony Parker, David Pingree, John Edgar Wideman, Lawrence C. Wroth, Alan Needleman, Robert Coover, David Kennedy, Peter A. Stewart, A. Hunter Dupree, Rhacel Parrenas, Jacob Tamarkin, Sergei Khrushchev, Stephen D. Houston, Ronald Rivlin, George Grafton Wilson, Henry Kucera, Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, Solomon Drowne, Anne Norton, Darrell M. West, Malcolm Knowles, Stanley Zdonik, Gordon S. Wood, Omer Bartov, E. U. Essien-Udom, Shadi Bartsch, Kay Warren, Carolyn D. Wright, Elisha Andrews, Peter Westervelt, Mary Carskadon, Frances Yao, Lance Banning, Carl Bridenbaugh, Roberto Tamassia, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, John Hawkes, Patricia Herlihy, Ted Sizer, Ed Koren, Michael S. Harper, Chi-Wang Shu, Norman Fiering, Joseph H. Silverman, Nancy Armstrong, Thomas R. Adams, George Lamming, Philip J. Davis, Roberto Simanowski, Calvin Hicks, Catherine Imbriglio, James T. Patterson, Ama Ata Aidoo, Paul Nelson, John A. Dillon, Leonard Carmichael, Edward L. Widmer, Michael C. J. Putnam, Jack Ruina, Nancy Milford, Eugene Lee, Richard Longabaugh, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, Gordon F. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=262625 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Lars Onsager, Fridtjof Nansen, Sigrid Undset, Knut Hamsun, Ragnar Frisch, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Trygve Haavelmo, Finn E. Kydland, Ivar Giaever, Odd Hassel, Christian Lous Lange. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: For the Norwegian Navy class of frigates, see Fridtjof Nansen class frigate. Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (10 October 1861 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. Fridtjof Nansen was born at Store Frøen, near Oslo in 1861, the son of a prosperous lawyer. As a young man, he was an expert skater, swimmer and skier, excelling in drawing and sciences at school. He studied Zoology at the University of Oslo. Nansen initially started out as a pioneer sports skier, and soon became interested in Arctic exploration. He led the first crossing of Greenland by ski, and achieved great success with his Arctic expedition aboard Fram. He later became noted as a zoologist and oceanographer, and was a pioneer of the neuron theory. He was also a distinguished diplomat, eventually becoming Commissioner of refugees for the League of Nations. He was married to Eva Nansen (died 1907) and was the father of noted architect and humanist Odd Nansen and the grandfather of Eigil Nansen. Nansen made his first voyage to Greenland waters in a sealing ship in 1882. In 1883 he became inspired to attempt a crossing of Greenland by ski after hearing of Nordenskiöld's expedition of the same year. Nansen's plan was to cross the island from east to west, which would require navigating through an almost impenetrable barrier of pack ice to land a ship on the east coast. Financed by State Councillor Augustinus Gamel, a Danish businessman, and ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11820 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Lars Onsager, Jon Hol, Theodore Theodorsen, Fred Kavli, Olav Selvaag, Carl Abraham Pihl, Thomas Heftye, Alfred Madsen, Bjørn Rørholt, Anthony Coucheron, Håkon Wium Lie, Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen, Engebret Soot, Johan Koren Christie, Lorentz Henrik Müller Segelcke, Tinius Olsen, Carl Bødtker, Hans Kristian Seip, Hans Jørgen Darre-Jenssen, Arne Rettedal, Erik Welle-Strand, Einar Johansen, Eivind Heiberg, Haakon Sørbye, Hartvig Andreas Munthe, Einar Sverdrup, Egil Reksten, Colin Archer, Dag Kavlie, Martin Siem, Hans Martin Seip, Ivar Formo, Wilhelm Blakstad, Nils Claus Ihlen, Andreas Lauritz Thune, Magnus Bjorndal, Theodor Borchgrevink, Jan Herman Linge, Wincentz Thurmann Ihlen, Torleiv Maseng, Ragnvald Bødtker, Sam Eyde, Gunvald Aus, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Kristian Kornelius Hagemann Brandt, Harald Skavlan, Erik Rotheim, Bror With, Toralf Westermoen, Morten Lyng Lossius, Harald Rensvik, Knut Brautaset, Kaare Sundby, Christian Ancher Collett, Oscar Jacobsen, Vebjørn Tandberg, Johannes Benedictus Klingenberg, Thorvald Mellingen, Valentin Valentinsen, Albert Hiorth, Alf Gjessing, Bjarne Johannes Hope, Hans Hagerup Krag, Helmer Dahl, Olaf Nordhagen, Ove Skaug, Arthur Omre, Anders Jordahl, Jens Theodor Paludan Vogt, Carl Fredrik Holmboe, Karl Olsen, Ferdinand Bjerke, Gunnar Jordfald, Jess Julius Engelstad, Olav Søfteland, Nils Henrik Bruun, Kaare Høeg, Rolf Østbye, Andreas Baalsrud, Olav Torpp, Thomas Offenberg Backer, Lars Monrad Krohn, Håkon Jacobsen, Carl Fredrik Lowzow, Ole Aanderud Larsen, Tor Tank-Nielsen, Sigmund Borgundvåg, Trygve Bruvik, Peter Rasmus Krag, Tryggve Fossum, Lars Lysgaard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 260. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jon Gundersen Hol (1 September 1851 1941) was a Norwegian engineer and activist. He is known for his pamphlet Rif...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22255570 ... Read more