In 19120, Walther Hermann Nernst won the Chemistry Noble Prize.
Born: 25 June 1864 Briesen, Prussia.
Died: 18 November 1941 (aged 77) Zibelle, Gau Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany.
Nationality: German.
Education: University of Zürich, Friedrich Wilhelm University, University of Graz, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.
Known as: Third Law of Thermodynamics, Nernst lamp Nernst equation, Nernst effect, Nernst heat theorem, Nernst potential, Nernst–Planck equation, Nernst’s distribution law.
Awards: Pour le Mérite (1917), Nobel Prize in chemistry (1920), Franklin Medal (1928), ForMemRS (1932).
Fields: Chemistry.
