AKA Walther Hermann Nernst

Born: 25-Jun-1864
Birthplace: Briesen, West Prussia, Germany
Died: 18-Nov-1941
Location of death: Muskau, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Third Law of Thermodynamics

Father: Gustav Ernst (judge)
Wife: Emma Lohmeyer (m. 1892, two sons, three daughters)

    University: University of Zürich
    University: University of Graz
    University: University of Würzburg (1887)
    Scholar: University of Leipzig
    Professor: University of Göttingen (1890-1905)
    Professor: Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Berlin (1924-33)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1920

Author of books:
Theoretische Chemie vom Standpunkte der Avogadro'schen Regel und der Thermodynamik (1893, chemistry)
Die theoretischen und experimentellen Grundlagen des neuen Wärmesatzes (1918, chemistry)

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