Lars Onsager

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1968

The Motion of Ions: Principles and Concepts

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From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972

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