Jacobus van 't Hoff
1852 CE–1911 CE · Rotterdam (Gouda)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (Dutch: [vɑn (ə)t ˈɦɔf]; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) 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". His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In his 1874 pamphlet, Van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry. In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality. He is also widely considered one of the three co-founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today. The Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie (Journal of Physical Chemistry) was founded in 1887 by Van ’t Hoff, Svante Arrhenius and Wilhelm Ostwald, at Leipzig University as the first dedicated scientific journal for the discipline.
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- Wilhelm Wundt· 1832 CE–1920 CE
- Ernst Haeckel· 1834 CE–1919 CE
- Adolf von Baeyer· 1835 CE–1917 CE
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- Robert Koch· 1843 CE–1910 CE
- Georg Cantor· 1845 CE–1918 CE
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- Gabriel Lippmann· 1845 CE–1921 CE
- Wilhelm Rontgen· 1845 CE–1923 CE
- Alexander Graham Bell· 1847 CE–1922 CE
- Gottlob Frege· 1848 CE–1925 CE
- Henri Becquerel· 1852 CE–1908 CE
- Henri Moissan· 1852 CE–1907 CE
- William Ramsay· 1852 CE–1916 CE
- Emil Fischer· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Henri Poincaré· 1854 CE–1912 CE
- Paul Ehrlich· 1854 CE–1915 CE
- Emil von Behring· 1854 CE–1917 CE
- Rudolf Diesel· 1858 CE–1913 CE
- Pierre Curie· 1859 CE–1906 CE
- Hermann Minkowski· 1864 CE–1909 CE
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- R. Tzvi Hirsch Shapira (Munkacs II)· 1850 CE–1913 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz· 1847 CE–1919 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv· 1841 CE–1926 CE
- Yitzchak Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan)· 1850 CE–1917 CE
- Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky· 1845 CE–1913 CE
- Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (Or Sameach, Meshech Chochmah)· 1843 CE–1926 CE
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- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Yaa Asantewaa· 1840 CE–1921 CE
- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
- Menelik II· 1844 CE–1913 CE
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Edward VII· 1841 CE–1910 CE
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Ito Hirobumi· 1841 CE–1909 CE
- Béhanzin· 1844 CE–1906 CE
- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
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