The Lars Onsager Lecture and Professorship
Lars Onsager (1903–1976)
Norwegian-American chemist and physicist. Born in Oslo, Ch.E. degree from Norges Tekniske Høiskole, Trondheim, in 1925. Emigrated to the USA in 1928 and became an American citizen in 1945. J. Willard Gibbs Professor at Yale University. Received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work done in 1931 on irreversible thermodynamics. (Biographical note).
The Lars Onsager Lecture and the Lars Onsager Professorship are awarded by the Onsager committee.
Present Onsager Lecturer
The Lars Onsager Lecturer for 2009 will be presented by Professor Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University, USA. His lecture with title When currents flow without resistance: Superconductivity and the quantum Hall effects will be presented on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 12:15-13:00 in R9, Realfagbygget.For further information, please contact Prof. Helge Holden.
Present Onsager Professor
The Lars Onsager Professorship for 2009 has been awarded to Professor Gerrit Ernst-Wilhelm Bauer, Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. For further information, please contact Prof. Arne Brataas. Prof. Bauer will present a public lecture on The Mechanics of Spintronics on Tuesday, Nov, 17 at 13:15-14 in E5-103 in Realfagbygget.
Thanks to the generosity of Lars Onsager's sons and daughter, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology has established a Lars Onsager archive located at NTNU Library/Gunnerus Library in Trondheim.
A general reference to the scientific works of Lars Onsager is:
The Collected Works of Lars Onsager (With Commentary)
(P.C. Hemmer, H. Holden, S.K. Ratkje, editors)
World Scientific, Singapore 1996
A biography on Lars Onsager was recently published by P.C. Hemmer and E. Hiis Hauge in the book "Norwegian Nobel Prize Laureates", (Olav Njølstad, ed.), Universitetsforlaget, 2006. Boken fins også på norsk "Norske nobelprisvinnere", (Olav Njølstad, red.) Universitetsforlaget, 2005.
