Onsager

[ on-sah-ger, awn- ]

noun

1. Lars, 1903–76, U.S. chemist, born in Norway: Nobel Prize 1968.

Example Sentences

In addition to the Nobel, Dr. Thouless’s major honors in physics included the Wolf Prize in 1990, the Paul Dirac Medal in 1993 and the Lars Onsager Prize in 2000.

From Washington Post

The anisotropic magneto-Peltier effect observed here is the missing thermoelectric phenomenon in ferromagnetic materials—the Onsager reciprocal of the anisotropic magneto-Seebeck effect previously observed in ferromagnets—and its simplicity might prove useful in developing thermal management technologies for electronic and spintronic devices.

From Nature

Thanks to the efforts of Eyink and others, about 10% of Onsager’s notebooks and letters — which are kept at the University of Trondheim in Norway —  have been digitized and are available for anyone to read online.

From Nature

Linus Pauling, another chemistry Nobel prizewinner, responded to a letter from Onsager, saying: “Your work looks very interesting indeed to me, but it is too far over my head for me to appreciate it properly.”

From Nature

Onsager conjectured that turbulence could slow non-viscous fluids only under particular conditions; in other cases, the fluids would keep flowing for ever, as might be expected.

From Nature