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August 30, 2021

Jennifer Van Orman

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JH van ‘t Hoff Jr

Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff (l) and Wilhelm Ostwald (r) in the laboratory, 1906

Winner of the first Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1901, Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff Jr was born on August 30, 1852.

Van’t Hoff’s laboratory in Amsterdam from Carnotycle the classical blog on thermodynamics

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Jennifer Van Orman

Artist and writer. On double-secret probation.