Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist, in 1901 Van 't Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for his] discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions".
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- Born in
- Rotterdam
- Educated at
- Utrecht UniversityDelft University of TechnologyUniversity of BonnLeiden University
- Awards
- 🏆 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Eduard Mulder
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Ernst Cohen📖 Wilder Dwight Bancroft📖 Harold A. Wilson📖 Albertus van Bijlert📖 Gerrit Hondius Boldingh
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1852
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Birth1911
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