Cato Maximilian Guldberg

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Cato Maximilian Guldberg
Guldberg and Waage
Guldberg and Waage
Born August 11, 1836
Christiania (today Oslo)
Died January 14, 1902
Oslo
Nationality Norwegian
Fields mathematics
chemistry
Institutions University of Oslo
Known for law of mass action
Influences Peter Waage

Cato Maximilian Guldberg (August 11, 1836 in Christiania (today Oslo) – January 14, 1902, Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist.

Guldberg worked at the University of Oslo. Together with his brother-in-law, Peter Waage, he proposed the law of mass action. The law attracted little attention until, in 1877, van 't Hoff arrived at a similar relationship and experimentally demonstrated its validity.

[edit] See also

  • Waage, P.; C. M. Guldberg (1864). "Studies Concerning Affinity". Forhandlinger: Videnskabs - Selskabet i Christinia: 35. 
  • Abrash, Henry I. (1986). "Studies Concerning Affinity". Journal of Chemical Education 63: 1044 – 1047. - English translation of Waage and Guldberg's 1864 paper (above)


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