Home > Physical chemistry

Physical chemistry is also fundamental to modern materials science.

1 Important physical chemists

• Svante Arrhenius
• Peter Debye
• J.W. Gibbs
• J.H. van 't Hoff
• Erich HückelErich Armand Arthur Joseph Huckel ( August 9, 1896 February 16, 1980) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions: The Debye-Huckel theory of electrolytic solutions The Huckel method of approximate molecular orbita
• Friedrich KohlrauschFriedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (Rinteln 1840 Marburg 1910) was a physicist. He was a son of Rudolf Kohlrausch. He performed electric and magnetic precision experiments, and studied electric and thermal conductivities. Kohlrausch, Friedrich Kohlrausch,
• Frederick LindemannProfessor Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ( 1886 1957) was a physicist who became an influential scientific adviser to the British government and a close associate of Winston Churchill. He advocated the wartime carpet bombing of Geman
• Lars OnsagerLars Onsager ( November 27, 1903- October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-American physical chemist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His life before coming to the United States Lars Onsager was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. His father was
• Wilhelm OstwaldWilhelm Ostwald ( September 2, 1853 April 3, 1932) was a German chemist. He received the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. Biography He was born in Riga (at that time Russia, today La
• Linus PaulingOsaka University in 1955. Linus Carl Pauling ( February 28, 1901 August 19, 1994) was an American physical chemist. Pauling was one of the first quantum chemists, and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work describing the nature of c

2 See also

• Important publications in physical chemistry(chemistry)Foundations The Dependence Between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements Dmitri Mendeleev Zeitscrift fur Chemie 12, 405-406 (1869) Description In this paper the Periodic Table was introduced. Notice that the table in the above link is the o, important publications in physical chemistry(physics)Classical mechanics Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Isaac Newton Description The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Latin: "mathematical principles of natural philosophy", often Principia or Principia Mathematica for short) is a t