Lars Onsager (1903-1976)
Norwegian-American chemist and physicist. Born in Oslo, Ch.E. degree
from Norges Tekniske Høiskole, Trondheim, in 1925. Emigrated to the
USA in 1928 and became an American citizen in 1945. J. Willard Gibbs
Professor at Yale University. Received the 1968
Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for work done in 1931 on irreversible thermodynamics. (Biographical
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| May 18, 2007
Fast vitenskapelig ansatte ved Instituttene for fysikk, kjemi, kjemisk prosessteknologi, materialteknologi, bioteknologi samt matematiske fag inviteres med dette til å sende inn forslag på kandidater for Onsager-professor og Onsager-foreleser for 2008. Informasjon om tidligere Onsager-professorer og forelesere samt reglement finnes på denne websiden www.math.ntnu.no/. Forslag på engelsk sendes pr epost til Prof. Helge Holden Fristen er 15. juni 2007.
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The Onsager medal
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Thanks to the generosity of Lars Onsager's sons and daughter, the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology has established a Lars Onsager archive
located at Universitetsbiblioteket/Gunnerus
Library in Trondheim.
A general reference to the scientific works of Lars Onsager is
The Collected Works of Lars Onsager (With Commentary)
(P.C. Hemmer, H. Holden, S.K. Ratkje, editors)
World Scientific, Singapore 1996
A biography on Lars Onsager was recently published by P.C. Hemmer and E. Hiis Hauge in
the book "Norwegian Nobel Prize Laureates", (Olav Njølstad, ed.),
Universitetsforlaget, 2006. Boken fins også på norsk "Norske nobelprisvinnere", (Olav Njølstad, red.)
Universitetsforlaget, 2005.
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| Present Onsager Professor and Lecturer |
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The Lars Onsager Professorship for 2007 has been awarded to Matthieu H. Ernst,
Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.
For further information
about when Prof. Ernst will visit NTNU, please contact Prof. Eivind Hiis Hauge.
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The Lars Onsager Lecture for 2007 will be presented Monday, April 16, 2007 at 10:15-11 in R1, Realfagbygget by
Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Department of Physics, Stanford University. (Nobel Laureate in Physics 1998). The title of his talk is Onsager's Unsolved Problem: Quantum Criticality. In addition, he will present a popular lecture on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 12:15-13 in R1, Realfagbygget with title A Different Universe.
For further information, please contact
Prof. Helge Holden.
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| The Lars Onsager Lecture |
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The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology and the Faculty of
Information Technology, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering
sponsor the annual Lars Onsager Lecture.
Previous recipients are:
- 2006 Rodney J. Baxter FRS FAA, Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University (physics and mathematics)
- 2005 Sir Brian
Pippard, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (physics)
- 2004 Leo
Kadanoff, Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of
Chicago (physics and mathematics)
- 2003 Ivar Giaever, Physics Department,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (physics)
- 2002 Frank H. Stillinger, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University (chemistry)
- 2001 Sir
Michael Berry, University of Bristol (mathematical physics)
- 2000 Vaughan
Jones, University of California, Los Angeles (mathematics)
- 1999 H. N. W. Lekkerkerker,
Utrecht University, Utrecht (colloid chemistry)
- 1998 E. H. Lieb, Princeton
University (physics and mathematics)
- 1997 P. G. de Gennes, Collège de France
(physics)
- 1996 R. J. Donnelly,
University of Oregon (superfluids)
- 1995 W. Ebeling,
Humboldt-University Berlin (physical chemistry)
- 1994 B. Widom,
Cornell University (statistical physics and physical chemistry)
- 1993 M. E. Fisher, University of
Maryland (statistical physics)
Regulations for the Lars Onsager
Lecture (in Norwegian).
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| The Lars Onsager Professorship |
| The Norwegian University of Science and Technology sponsors the
annual Lars Onsager Professorship. The recipient
is to spend 3-6 months at NTNU to collaborate with scientists here.
Previous recipients are:
- 2006 John R.
Klauder, Departments
of Physics and Mathematics, University of Florida (physics and mathematics)
- 2005 Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University (mathematics)
- 2004 George Batrouni,
University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis France (physics)
- 2003 Miguel Rubí Capaceti, Facultat de Fisica, Departament Fisica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. (chemistry)
- 2002 John S. Newman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California (chemical engineering).
- 2001 D. A. Brant, University of Californa, Irvine (chemistry)
- 2000 V. Havin, St. Petersburg (mathematics).
- 1999 A. Iserles,
University of Cambridge (mathematics)
- 1998 V. S. Varadarajan, University of California, Los Angeles (mathematics)
- 1997 D. Bedeaux, Leiden University (physical chemistry)
- 1996 J. M. J. van Leeuwen, Leiden University (statistical physics)
- 1995 F. W. Gehring, University of Michigan (mathematics)
- 1994 V. B. Lazarev, The Kurnakov institute
of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Moscow (chemistry)
- 1993 G. Stell, SUNY, Stony Brook (statistical physics)
Regulations for the Lars Onsager
Professorship (in Norwegian).
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The Lars Onsager Lecture and the Lars Onsager Professorship are
awarded by the Onsager committee which consists of
Both the Lecturer and the Professor receive the Onsager medal.
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