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    Walther Hermann Nernst ForMemRS (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈnɛʁnst] ; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physical chemist known for his...
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  • undergoing reduction and oxidation respectively. It was named after Walther Nernst, a German physical chemist who formulated the equation. When an oxidizer...
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    The Nernst heat theorem was formulated by Walther Nernst early in the twentieth century and was used in the development of the third law of thermodynamics...
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  • the fluid by electrostatic forces. It is named after Walther Nernst and Max Planck. The Nernst–Planck equation is a continuity equation for the time-dependent...
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    In physics and chemistry, the Nernst effect (also termed the first Nernst–Ettingshausen effect, after Walther Nernst and Albert von Ettingshausen) is a...
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    used as the glowing rod. Developed by the German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst in 1897 at the University of Göttingen, these lamps were about twice...
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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...
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    chemist Walther Nernst during the years 1906 to 1912 and is therefore often referred to as the Nernst heat theorem, or sometimes the Nernst-Simon heat...
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  • 1126/science.174.4006.318. PMID 5119107. S2CID 34404730. Nernst/Goldman Equation Simulator Nernst Equation Calculator Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz Equation Calculator...
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    producing a gravitational effect was identified as early as 1916 by Walther Nernst. He predicted that the value had to be either zero or very small. In...
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    German World War II general Walther Nernst (1864–1941), German physical chemist and physicist; Nobel laureate in chemistry Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), German...
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    1918 prize awarded to Fritz Haber in 1919, the 1920 prize awarded to Walther Nernst in 1921, the 1921 prize awarded to Frederick Soddy in 1922, the 1925...
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    established. Later, Nernst's theorem (or Nernst's postulate), which is now known as the third law, was formulated by Walther Nernst over the period 1906–1912...
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  • of the institute traces back to 1914, as an idea from Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Emil Warburg, Heinrich Rubens. On October 1, 1917, the...
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    Kaiser's request, his commanders met with his friend, the eminent chemist Walther Nernst, who knew America well, and who warned against the idea. Ludendorff...
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    less than nine Nobel Prize winners: Max Born, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Otto Wallach, Adolf Windaus, Richard Zsigmondy and Manfred...
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    Ostwald in Leipzig, Germany. Abegg later served as private assistant to Walther Nernst at the University of Göttingen and to Svante Arrhenius at the University...
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    the field of physical chemistry, with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Walther Nernst and Svante Arrhenius. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909...
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    Ettingshausen effect (category Walther Nernst)
    magnetic field is present. Albert von Ettingshausen and his PhD student Walther Nernst were studying the Hall effect in bismuth, and noticed an unexpected...
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    by Edison in 1898. In 1897, German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst developed the Nernst lamp, a form of incandescent lamp that used a ceramic globar...
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  • Einstein's theories. Einstein attended the event with Walther Nernst. Max von Laue, Walther Nernst, and Heinrich Rubens published a brief and dignified...
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    Boltzmann at the University of Graz. In 1886, he and his colleague Walther Nernst, then a PhD student at the University of Graz, jointly discovered the...
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  • Physics 1923 Hermann Minkowski — Mathematics Leonard Nelson — Mathematics Walther Nernst — Physical Chemistry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920 John von Neumann...
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  • important contributions in electrochemistry by the side of his mentor Walther Nernst, and continued as a professor with work on the improvement of analytical...
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    Neo-Bechstein or Bechstein-Siemens-Nernst-Flügel were a set of electric grand pianos that were primarily built by Walther Nernst in the 1930s. Improvising upon...
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    Bordet Carl Spitteler Woodrow Wilson 1920 Charles Édouard Guillaume Walther Nernst August Krogh Knut Hamsun Léon Bourgeois 1921 Albert Einstein Frederick...
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    of Berlin, working in the research group of Walther Nernst on low-temperature physics related to the Nernst Heat Theorem, which is one statement of the...
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    of chemical processes by Rudolf Clausius, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Walther Nernst. It also led to a mathematical formulation of the concept of entropy...
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    Richards 1915: Richard Willstätter 1916 1917 1918: Fritz Haber 1919 1920: Walther Nernst 1921: Frederick Soddy 1922: Francis Aston 1923: Fritz Pregl 1924 1925:...
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    physics from the University of Berlin, having studied under Max Planck, Walther Nernst, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein. Frederick Lindemann visited...
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