What is Lars Onsager?
{{Infobox person | name = Lars Onsager | image = Onsager 1968.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Lars Onsager, 1968 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|11|27|mf=y}} | birth_place = Kristiania ([[Oslo]]), [[Norway]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1976|10|5|1903|11|27|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Coral Gables]], [[Florida]], U.S. | nationality = [[Norway]], U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Theorectical Chemistry | years_active = | known_for = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Noble Prize in Chemistry]], 1968 | notable_works = }} '''Lars Onsager''' (November 27, 1903 &ndash; October 5, 1976) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]]-born American [[Physical chemistry|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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Montroll, Elliott W.|author-link=Elliott Waters Montroll|date=February 1977|title=Lars Onsager|url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v30/i2/p77_s1?bypassSSO=1|url-status=dead|journal=Physics Today|volume=30|issue=2|page=77|bibcode=1977PhT....30b..77M|doi=10.1063/1.3037438|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928094934/http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v30/i2/p77_s1?bypassSSO=1|archive-date=2013-09-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1968/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=2016-03-07}}</ref> == Education and early life == Lars Onsager was born in Kristiania (now [[Oslo]]), [[Norway]]. His father was a [[lawyer]]. After completing secondary school in Oslo, he attended the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in [[Trondheim]], graduating as a [[Chemical engineering|chemical engineer]] in 1925. == Career and research == In 1925 he discovered that the Debye-Hüc