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Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
Lars Onsager (27 November 1903 – 5 October 1976) was a Norwegian American 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.
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| Measure | 1903 | 2026 |
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| Population | 80.4M | 341 million |
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