Editing Lars Onsager

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'''Lars Onsager''' (born in 1903 in Oslo, Norway,  died in 1976)
[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1968/index.html Nobel laureate] in chemistry in 1968 for
"for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes".
He is renowned for his solution of the [[Ising_Models#2-dimensional_Ising_model|two-dimensional Ising model]], a mathematical ''tour de force'' which made clear the nature of [[phase transitions]]. (The fact that the two-dimensional Ising model
must have a phase transition was advanced by an argument by [[Rudolph Peierls]]).

==See also==
*[[Onsager theory | Onsager theory of the isotropic-nematic transition]]
*[[Onsager reciprocal relations]]
*[[Reaction field]]
==Related reading==
*[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1968/onsager-lecture.pdf Lars Onsager "The Motion of Ions: Principles and Concepts", Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1968]
==Publications list==
Incomplete list:
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.37.405 Lars Onsager "Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. I.", Physical Review '''37''' pp. 405 - 426 (1931)]
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.38.2265 Lars Onsager "Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. II.", Physical Review '''38''' pp. 2265 - 2279 (1931)]
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja01299a050 Lars Onsager "Electric Moments of Molecules in Liquids", Journal of the American Chemical Society '''58''' pp. 1486-1493 (1936)]
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1949.tb27296.x Lars Onsager "The effects of shape on the interaction of colloidal particles", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences '''51'''  pp. 627-659 (1949)]
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