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5 unusual facts about Lars Onsager


Bruria Kaufman

She is known for contributions to Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, to statistical physics, where she used applied spinor analysis to rederive the result of Lars Onsager on the partition function of the two-dimensional Ising Model, and to the study of the Mössbauer effect, on which she collaborated with John von Neumann and Harry Lipkin.

Lars Onsager

These are now organized as The Lars Onsager Archive at the Gunnerus Library in Trondheim.

17 Editors: Per Chr Hemmer, Helge Holden and Signe Kjelstrup Ratkje (World Scientific, Singapore 1996) ISBN 981-02-2563-6.

Onsager

Lars Onsager, a Norwegian–American physical chemist and theoretical physicist

Onsager–Machlup function

It is named after Lars Onsager and S. Machlup who were the first to consider such probability densities.



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