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