Zibelle, Gau Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany (now Niwica, Poland)
Nationality
German
Alma mater
University of Zurich Friedrich Wilhelm University University of Graz Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
Known for
Third Law of Thermodynamics Nernst lamp Nernst equation Nernst effect Nernst heat theorem Nernst potential Nernst–Planck equation Nernst's distribution law
Spouse
Emma Lohmeyer[2]
Awards
Pour le Mérite (1917) Nobel Prize in chemistry (1920) Franklin Medal (1928) ForMemRS (1932)
Scientific career
Fields
Chemistry
Institutions
Georg August University of Göttingen Friedrich Wilhelm University Leipzig University
Doctoral advisor
Friedrich Kohlrausch[citation needed]
Other academic advisors
Ludwig Boltzmann
Doctoral students
Sir Francis Simon Richard Abegg Irving Langmuir Leonid Andrussow Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Frederick Lindemann William Duane Margaret Eliza Maltby Arnold Eucken
Other notable students
Gilbert N. Lewis Max Bodenstein Robert von Lieben Kurt Mendelssohn Theodor Wulf Emil Bose Hermann Irving Schlesinger Claude Hudson
Signature
The New Heat Theorem (1926)
Walther Hermann NernstForMemRS (German pronunciation:[ˈvaltɐˈnɛʁnst]ⓘ; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physicist and physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for developing the Nernst equation in 1887.
He studied physics and mathematics at the universities of Zürich, Berlin, Graz and Würzburg, where he received his doctorate 1887.[3] In 1889, he finished his habilitation at University of Leipzig.
^Cherwell; Simon, F. (1942). "Walther Nernst. 1864-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (11): 101. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1942.0010. S2CID 123003922.
^"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920".
^Mendelssohn, K. (1973). The World of Walther Nernst. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8229-1109-8.
Walther Hermann Nernst ForMemRS (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈnɛʁnst] ; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physicist and physical chemist...
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In physics and chemistry, the Nernst effect (also termed the first Nernst–Ettingshausen effect, after WaltherNernst and Albert von Ettingshausen) is a...
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the conductivity and electrolytic dissociation of organic acids. Walther Hermann Nernst developed the theory of the electromotive force of the voltaic cell...
chemist WaltherNernst during the years 1906 to 1912 and is therefore often referred to as the Nernst heat theorem, or sometimes the Nernst-Simon heat...
newly founded Institut für Physikalische Chemie at Göttingen under Walther Hermann Nernst. Invited back to Germany in 1898 to work at the Physikalisch-Technische...
1918 prize awarded to Fritz Haber in 1919, the 1920 prize awarded to WaltherNernst in 1921, the 1921 prize awarded to Frederick Soddy in 1922, the 1925...
established. Later, Nernst's theorem (or Nernst's postulate), which is now known as the third law, was formulated by WaltherNernst over the period 1906–1912...
Kaiser's request, his commanders met with his friend, the eminent chemist WaltherNernst, who knew America well, and who warned against the idea. Ludendorff...
of the institute traces back to 1914, as an idea from Fritz Haber, WaltherNernst, Max Planck, Emil Warburg, Heinrich Rubens. On October 1, 1917, the...
by WaltherNernst, who derived the Nernst equation and detected ionic conduction in heterovalently doped zirconia, which he applied in his Nernst lamp...
German World War II general WaltherNernst (1864–1941), German physical chemist and physicist; Nobel laureate in chemistry Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), German...
important contributions in electrochemistry by the side of his mentor WaltherNernst, and continued as a professor with work on the improvement of analytical...
by Edison in 1898. In 1897, German physicist and chemist WaltherNernst developed the Nernst lamp, a form of incandescent lamp that used a ceramic globar...
Richards 1915: Richard Willstätter 1916 1917 1918: Fritz Haber 1919 1920: WaltherNernst 1921: Frederick Soddy 1922: Francis Aston 1923: Fritz Pregl 1924 1925:...
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Ostwald in Leipzig, Germany. Abegg later served as private assistant to WaltherNernst at the University of Göttingen and to Svante Arrhenius at the University...
Einstein's formula for the diffusion coefficient was also found by WaltherNernst in 1888 in which he expressed the diffusion coefficient as the ratio...
of chemical processes by Rudolf Clausius, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and WaltherNernst. It also led to a mathematical formulation of the concept of entropy...
producing a gravitational effect was identified as early as 1916 by WaltherNernst. He predicted that the value had to be either zero or very small. In...
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molecules are formed besides the stable products, and so on.) In 1918, WaltherNernst proposed that the photochemical reaction between hydrogen and chlorine...
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