Walther Nernst

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From left to right: Nobel Laureates Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Robert A. Millikan and Max von Laue at a dinner given by Professor von Laue

From left to right: Nobel Laureates Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Robert A. Millikan and Max von Laue at a dinner given by Professor von Laue in Berlin, 11 November 1931.

Source: Nationaal Archief Photographer unknown Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Svante Arrhenius and the Boltzmann group in Graz, 1887.

Svante Arrhenius and the Boltzmann group in Graz, 1887. Back row: Walther Nernst (awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Heinrich Streintz, Svante Arrhenius, Richard Hiecke. Front row: Eduard Aulinger, Albert von Ettingshausen, Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, Ignaz Klemenčič and Victor Hausmanninger.

Source: Universität Graz. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Photographer unknown.

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