LEADER 05551nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910450698903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-93363-5 010 $a9786611933630 010 $a981-279-097-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000414181 035 $a(EBL)1681382 035 $a(OCoLC)879025208 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954601 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237866 035 $a(PQKB)11034955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1681382 035 $a(WSP)00005974 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1681382 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10255540 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL193363 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000414181 100 $a20080314d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalther Nernst$b[electronic resource] $epioneer of physics and of chemistry /$fHans-Georg Bartel, Rudolf P. Huebener 210 $aSingapore ;$aHackensack, NJ $cWorld Scientific$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (409 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-256-560-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; 1. Development of Physics and Physical Chemistry from about 1800 until 1870; 2. Youth and University Period (1864 - 1887); 2.1 Ancestors and Parents; 2.2 Youth and High School in Graudenz; 2.3 University Studies in Zurich and Berlin; 2.4 Graz: The "Second Scientific Home"; 2.4.1 University and physics in Graz: Ludwig Boltzmann and Albert von Ettingshausen; 2.4.2 The Ettingshausen-Nernst effects and the Nernst effect; 2.5 Conclusion of the University Studies in Wurzburg; 3. Habilitation in Leipzig (1887 - 1889); 3.1 The Sciences at the University of Leipzig 327 $a3.2 Wilhelm Ostwald3.3 The Completion of the Thermodynamics of Electro chemistry: The Nernst Equation ; 3.4 The "Ionists" versus the "Anti-Ionists"; 4 . The Gottingen Period: The Rise to World Fame (1890 - 1905); 4.1 The Georgia Augusta University in Gottingen; 4.2 Eduard Riecke, Felix Klein, and Mathematics in Gottingen ; 4.3 Early Studies in Gottingen: The Nemst Distribution Law; 4.4 Marriage with Emma Lohmeyer and the Walther Nernst Family; 4.5 The Textbook "Theoretical Chemistry from the Stand- point of Avogadro's Rule and Themodynamics" 327 $a4.6 The First Professorship and the Establishment of a Chair of Physical Chemistry4.7 The New Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electro- chemistry ; 4.8 Studies and Members in the New Institute ; 4.9 The Nernst Lamp; 4.10 Nemst Law of Electrical Nerve Stimulus Threshold (Reizschwellengesetz); 4.11 The Construction of Instruments; 4.12 Mathematics and Chemistry; 5 . Professor of Physical Chemistry in Berlin (1905 . 1922); 5.1 The Friedrich-Wilhelm University and Other Academic Institutions in Berlin and Charlottenburg; 5.2 The Famous Year 1905 327 $a5.3 The lnstitute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Berlin5.4 The First Lecture in Berlin - Announcement of a Fun- damental Law of Nature ; 5.5 The Nernst Law of Heat or the Third Law of Thermo- dynamics; 5.5.1 Remarks on the First and Second Law of Thermo- dynamics; 5.5.2 The problem and its solution given by Nernst; 5.5.3 The calculation of chemical equilibria; 5.5.4 Specific heats and low-temperature physics; 5.5.5 Quantum Theory; 5.5.6 The impossibility of reaching the absolute zero of temperature; 5.5.7 Formulation of the Third Thermal Law by Max Planck 327 $a5.5.8 Research between 1906 and 1916, the monograph, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry5.5.9 Critique and priority conflict; 5.6 Other Scientific Studies during this Period; 5.7 Organization of Science; 5.7.1 Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes; 5.7.2 German Electrochemical Society; 5.7.3 Other developments; 5.7.4 Rector of the University and the Institute for Foreigners; 5.8 Managing a Country Estate, Hunting, and Fish Farming ; 5.9 The First World War ; 5.9.1 War-related research: gas warfare, explosives, bal- listics; 5.9.2 The effort on peace negotiations; 5.10 Political Activities 327 $a5.11 Visits to the USA and to South America 330 $a More than 100 years ago, in 1905, Walther Nernst discovered the Third Law of Thermodynamics, thus completing this fundamental theory. In 1920 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The book describes the life of this pioneer of science, his major stations being Graz, then Go?ttingen, and finally Berlin. Also presented is a lively account of the development of low temperature physics by Nernst during the early days of quantum theory, when he was in Berlin, closely associated with Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Max von Laue. The book outlines the specific advances achieved by Nernst in 606 $aChemistry, Physical and theoretical$xHistory 606 $aChemists$zGermany$vBiography 606 $aPhysicists$zGermany$vBiography 606 $aPhysics$zGermany$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChemistry, Physical and theoretical$xHistory. 615 0$aChemists 615 0$aPhysicists 615 0$aPhysics$xHistory. 676 $a540.92 676 $aB 700 $aBartel$b Hans-Georg$0933724 701 $aHuebener$b R. P$g(Rudolf Peter),$f1931-$047839 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450698903321 996 $aWalther Nernst$92102059 997 $aUNINA