Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager ForMemRS
Lars Onsager
Born	(1903-11-27)27 November 1903 Kristiania (Oslo), Norway
Died	5 October 1976(1976-10-05) (aged 72) Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.
Education	Yale University Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Known for	Quantum vortex Negative temperature Onsager–Machlup function Onsager reaction field Onsager hard rod model Onsager regression hypothesis Debye–Hückel–Onsager equation Onsager reciprocal relations Square lattice Ising model Revealing the physics behind the De Haas–van Alphen effect and the Wien effect
Awards	Lorentz Medal (1958) Willard Gibbs Award (1962) Peter Debye Award (1965) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1968) National Medal of Science (1968)
Scientific career
Fields	Physical chemist
Workplaces	ETH Zürich Johns Hopkins University Brown University Yale University University of Miami
Thesis	Solutions of the Mathieu Equation of Period 4π and Certain Related Functions  (1935)
Doctoral students	Joseph L. McCauley

Lars Onsager (27 November 1903 – 5 October 1976) was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.