Cato Maximilian Guldberg
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Cato Maximilian Guldberg | |
Guldberg and Waage
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Born | August 11, 1836 Christiania (today Oslo) |
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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)