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NERNST HEAT THEROEM. NERNST, WALTER HERMANN. 1864-1941. "Ueber die Berechnung chemischer Gleichgewichte aus thermischen Messungen." Offprint from: K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse, 1, 1906.
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NERNST HEAT THEROEM.
NERNST, WALTER HERMANN. 1864-1941. "Ueber die Berechnung chemischer Gleichgewichte aus thermischen Messungen." Offprint from: K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse, 1, 1906.
8vo. 40 pp. Original printed wrappers, detached but present, with some chipping to edges.
FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, OF THE FIRST STATEMENT OF THE THIRD LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS FOR WHICH NERNST WAS AWARDED THE 1920 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY. VERY RARE. A milestone in modern physics, this paper is the link between chemical thermodynamics and the revolutionary quantum theory set out by German physicist Max Planck (1858-1947) five years previously. In the formulation now commonly referred to as the "Nernst Heat Theorem," Nernst lays out (in equation number 4 of the present work), the law which states that entropy also approaches a value of zero as the temperature approaches absolute zero, which of course implies that absolute zero can never be reached. A year later, Einstein published a paper which showed that the new theory of quantum mechanics developed by Max Planck in 1900 predicts that the specific heats of all solids tend toward absolute zero when in the vicinity of absolute zero temperature. This in turn showed that Nernst's heat theorem reinforced the quantum theory. To this day, modern scientists have reached temperatures less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, but have never been able to reach absolute zero itself. OCLC locates no copies. Dictionary of Scientific Biography Supplement 1, pp 440-41; see, Kuhn, Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity.
8vo. 40 pp. Original printed wrappers, detached but present, with some chipping to edges.
FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, OF THE FIRST STATEMENT OF THE THIRD LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS FOR WHICH NERNST WAS AWARDED THE 1920 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY. VERY RARE. A milestone in modern physics, this paper is the link between chemical thermodynamics and the revolutionary quantum theory set out by German physicist Max Planck (1858-1947) five years previously. In the formulation now commonly referred to as the "Nernst Heat Theorem," Nernst lays out (in equation number 4 of the present work), the law which states that entropy also approaches a value of zero as the temperature approaches absolute zero, which of course implies that absolute zero can never be reached. A year later, Einstein published a paper which showed that the new theory of quantum mechanics developed by Max Planck in 1900 predicts that the specific heats of all solids tend toward absolute zero when in the vicinity of absolute zero temperature. This in turn showed that Nernst's heat theorem reinforced the quantum theory. To this day, modern scientists have reached temperatures less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, but have never been able to reach absolute zero itself. OCLC locates no copies. Dictionary of Scientific Biography Supplement 1, pp 440-41; see, Kuhn, Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity.