TY - BOOK ID - 136834446 TI - Walther Nernst : pioneer of physics and of chemistry AU - Bartel, Hans-Georg. AU - Huebener, R. P. PY - 2007 SN - 1281933635 9786611933630 9812790977 9789812790972 9781281933638 9789812565600 9812565604 PB - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical KW - Chemists KW - Physicists KW - Physics KW - History. KW - Nernst, Walther, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136834446 AB - 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 Göttingen, 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 ER -