ON June 25, Walther Nernst, well known as a physical chemist, will celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday. Nernst was born at Briesen, West Prussia, and studied at the Universities of Zurich, Berlin, ...
THE first of the above volumes contains a series of ten lectures delivered by Prof. Nernst at the Yale University in 1906 under the Silliman Foundation. After two introductory chapters, a résumé is ...
IT’S an absolute. Mathematics has put speed limits on cooling, finally proving a century-old law – that unless you have infinite time and resources, you can’t get to the absolute zero of temperature.