Walther Nernst

Walther Nernst
; Walther Nernst
Born	Walther Hermann Nernst; 25 Juin 1864; Briesen, Wast Proushie (nou Wąbrzeźno, Poland)
Dee'd	18 November 1941 (aged 77); Zibelle, Lusatia, Germany (nou Niwica, Poland)
Naitionality	German
Alma mater	Varsity o Zürich; Varsity o Berlin; Varsity o Graz; Varsity o Würzburg
Kent for	Third Law o Thermodynamics; Nernst lamp; Nernst equation; Nernst glower; Nernst effect; Nernst heat theorem; Nernst potential; Nernst–Planck equation
Awairds	Nobel Prize in chemistry (1920); Franklin Medal (1928)
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Varsity o Göttingen; Varsity o Berlin; Varsity o Leipzig
Doctoral advisor	Friedrich Kohlrausch
Other academic advisors	Ludwig Boltzmann
Doctoral students	Sir Frances Simon; Richard Abegg; Irving Langmuir ; Leonid Andrussow; Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer; Frederick Lindemann; William Duane
Ither notable students	Gilbert N. Lewis; Max Bodenstein; Robert von Lieben; Kurt Mendelssohn; Theodor Wulf; Emil Bose; Hermann Irving Schlesinger; Claude Hudson
Influenced	J. R. Partington
Signatur	File:Walther Hermann Nernst sig.gif

Walther Hermann Nernst, ForMemRS^[1] (25 Juin 1864 – 18 November 1941) wis a German chemist that is kent for his theories ahnit the calculation o chemical affinity as embouked in the third law o thermodynamics, that he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Nernst helped establish the modren field o physical chemistry an contreibutit tae electrochemistry, thermodynamics an solit state pheesics. He is kent for developin the Nernst equation as weel.

References

↑ 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.