Walther Nernst
German physical chemist and physicist (1864–1941)
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He pinned down the behavior of matter at absolute zero—work so fundamental it earned him a Nobel and became the third law of thermodynamics.
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Nernst studied physics and mathematics across Zürich, Berlin, Graz, and Würzburg, earning his doctorate in 1887. That same year he developed the Nernst equation, a tool for predicting the voltage of electrochemical cells. He completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig in 1889. His major contribution came with the Nernst heat theorem, which described how entropy behaves as temperature approaches absolute zero—foundational work that opened the door to the third law of thermodynamics. The theorem won him the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His reach stretched across thermodynamics, ele…
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