# Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

> Van 't Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901 for discovering the laws that govern how molecules move and press against barriers in solution — work that gave chemists a way to predict reactions instead of just watch them happen.

*Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1852-08-30
- **Died:** 1911-03-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist born 30 August 1852. In 1874 he published a pamphlet proposing that carbon atoms arrange themselves in three-dimensional tetrahedrons, not flat planes — a leap that founded stereochemistry and explained why some molecules are mirror images of others. A year later he predicted the structures of allenes and cumulenes and described their axial chirality. His theoretical work on chemical affinity, equilibrium, kinetics, and thermodynamics helped create physical chemistry as a distinct field. He died 1 March 1911, leaving a framework that turned chemistry from craft into rigorous science.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Physics, #19th Century

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