Cato Maximilian Guldberg | |
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Guldberg and Waage
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Born | 11 August 1836 Christiania |
Died | 14 January 1902 Kristiania |
(aged 65)
Nationality | Norwegian |
Fields | mathematics chemistry |
Institutions | Royal Frederick University |
Known for | law of mass action |
Influences | Peter Waage |
Cato Maximilian Guldberg (11 August 1836 – 14 January 1902) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist.
Guldberg worked at the Royal Frederick University. Together with his brother-in-law, Peter Waage, he proposed the law of mass action. This law attracted little attention until, in 1877, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff arrived at a similar relationship and experimentally demonstrated its validity.[1][2]
In 1890, he published what is now known as the Guldberg rule, which states that the normal boiling point of a liquid is two-thirds of the critical temperature when measured on the absolute scale.[3][4]
From 1866 to 1868, 1869 to 1872 and 1874 to 1875 he was the chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society.[5]
Preceded by H. Koch |
Chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society 1866–1868 |
Succeeded by Peter Waage |
Preceded by Peter Waage |
Chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society 1869–1872 |
Succeeded by Johannes Benedictus Klingenberg |
Preceded by Johannes Benedictus Klingenberg |
Chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society 1874–1875 |
Succeeded by Hans Jacob Rosenørn Grüner |