This volume contains the collected works of the eminent chemist and
physicist Lars Onsager, one of the most influential scientists of
the 20th Century. The volume includes Onsager's previously
unpublished PhD thesis, a biography by H C Longuet-Higgins and M E
Fisher, an autobiographical commentary, selected photographs, and a
list of Onsager discussion remarks in print. Onsager's scientific
achievements were characterized by deep insights into the natural
sciences. His two best-known accomplishments are his reciprocal
relations for irreversible processes, for which he received the
1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his explicit solution of the
two-dimensional Ising model, a mathematical tour de force that
created a sensation when it appeared. In addition, he made
significant theoretical contributions to other fields, including
electrolytes, colloids, superconductivity, turbulence, ice,
electrons in metals, and dielectrics. In this volume, Onsager's
contributions are divided into the following fields: irreversible
processes; the Ising model; electrolytes; colloids; helium II and
vortex quantization; off-diagonal long-range order and flux
quantization; electrons in metal; turbulence; ion recombination;
fluctuation theory; dielectrics; ice and water; biology; Mathieu
functions. The different fields are evaluated by leading experts.
The commentators are P W Anderson, R Askey, A Chorin, C Domb, R J
Donnelly, W Ebeling, J-C Justice, H N W Lekkerkerker, P Mazur, H P
McKean, J F Nagle, T Odijk, A B Pippard, G Stell, G H Weiss, and C
N Yang.
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